Deliberationes - Gál Ferenc Hittudományi Főiskola

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Gábor Kozma: An Innovative Environment? About the Scientific
Possibilities and Social Impossibilities of Education 1
How is it that despite the manifold developments of 20 th –21 st -century pedagogy, in
today’s society everything that is a proclamation of love and benevolence is considered
to be suspicious? This does not support the superfluity of pedagogy; to the contrary, it
has to be made the instrument of an innovation that extends to the whole of society. For
all the products of pedagogical innovation, the increasing difficulties of discipline in the
family and at school are present. It is essential that the achievements of innovation also
appear on the level of the system of education, not only in individual products, since
the latter is the particularity of economic efficiency and is overshadowing the efficiency
of education. Competence-based education also requires critical examination as an
influence that contributes to the elimination of traditional (e.g. Christian) educational
objectives, in compliance with the demands of a consumer society. Further questions
are raised about the “anti-instrumentalization” of public education, the ostracism of
discipline from higher education, the chaotic consequences of the Bologna system as
well as the unplanned nature of pedagogue training.
Géza Kuminetz: Free choice of conjugal love and of
married state of life
This study searches for an answer to the vexed question of what gives marriage its
essence and within this essence where is love located? Marriage has four roots that cannot
be retracted and yet they are interwoven: these include sexus, eros, genus and ethos.
Thus eros, i.e. love constitutes an essential characteristic feature of marriage inasmuch
as it meets the ethical requirements of sexuality in a person that does not exclude the
requirement of maintaining the human race. Consequently, conjugal love starts with a
sexual attraction, and materializes in a definite commitment to the establishment and
maintenance of a stable and indissoluble community of life.
At the same time conjugal love, since it is not fully submissive to willpower, is not an
establishing cause for marriage, it presents as a most distinctive and desirable motive.
Moreover, love itself does not affect the will in an absolutely deterministic way. Due to
this, any listing of love among the essential ingredients of connubial agreement may lead
to misunderstanding; nor should it be considered as a legally irrefutable fact.
In conclusion, love is the greatest motive for a human being to make an irrevocable
1 The lecture version of this paper was given at the conference entitled The Hope of Pedagogy – The
Pedagogy of Hope on November 20 th , 2009 at Gál Ferenc Theological College, within the frame of the series
of events of the Feast of Hungarian Science 2009.
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