Programska knjižica - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

socijalnih mehanizama upotrebe znanja u društvu te odnosa kulture, shvaćene
kao temeljnog obrasca nekog društva, i znanosti, shvaćene kao produktivnog
mehanizma. O ovim pitanjima vrlo je plodonosno pisao i španjolski filozof
Ortega y Gasset (1883.−1955.). U okviru ovoga izlaganja dotaknut ćemo se
nekih misli iz dvaju Orteginih djela: Misija sveučilišta (1930.) i Pobuna masa
(1930.). Središnje pitanje Orteginih uvida je sljedeće: zašto sveučilišta na zapadu
izgledaju ovako kako izgledaju? Nadalje, koji je njihov »europski supstrat«,
a po čemu su značajna primjerice germanska ili francuska sveučilišta?
Dva su temeljna pravca koja ćemo slijediti u ovome izlaganju. Prvi je vezan uz
Ortegino shvaćanje ‘naroda’, potrebama kojega akademsko školovanje mora
odgovoriti, dok je drugi vezan uz dimenzije tehnikalizacije života čovjeka.
Ovo potonje razvijeno je sintagmi ‘barbarstvo specijalizacije’ koju Ortega
podvrgava kritici navodeći osnovnu tezu da suvremeno tehnikalizirano znanje
ne odgovara duhovnim potrebama čovjeka i ‘naroda’. Temeljna zamisao ovoga
izlaganja je, u kontekstu Ortegine misli, preispitati koja je zadaća sveučilišta.
EDUCATION OF PEOPLES AND THE MISSION
OF THE UNIVERSITY
Thought of Ortega Y Gasset
In the context of the discussion on the role of the university in contemporary
society we encounter several very important questions: some of them
concern relation of society with science, other concern social mechanisms of
the use of knowledge and relation between culture, understood as a basic social
model, and science, understood as a model of social production. Very considerable
contribution to the consideration of the mentioned problems we can find
in the thought of Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955). In this paper,
on the basis of the Ortega’s insights, mostly from his work Mission of the
University (1930) and The Revolt of the Masses (1930), we will try to answer
the following question: why European universities function the way they do,
or rather: what is the specificity, besides the “European substrate”, of German
or French universities? There are two basic directions we wish to follow in this
paper. First, on the basis of Ortegian understanding of the concept of ‘people’,
we must try to find an answer to the following question: what is the purpose of
the University? Second important insight of this paper, considering Ortega’s
term ‘barbarism of the specialisation’, is to show Ortega’s insight shaped in the
following question: Why contemporary highly technical knowledge does not
respond to cultural demands of human and ‘people’?
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