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"View the stars by day" in a deep dark well

Jie Yu

pp. 23-41

Abstrakt

Focusing on Heidegger's complex explorations of (un)truth in clearings, this chapter suggests in traditional direct teaching of "truth," teaching is reduced to a method instructing students to acquire knowledge under the shining Sun of Truth, a concept criticized by Heidegger (The piety of thinking. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1958/1976) as "brighter than one thousand suns' (p. 56). The powerful ethical, pedagogical, and philosophical question Heidegger raises is how to "view the stars by day" when we have to "descend into the dark of the depths of the well" (p. 56). A Taoist Pedagogy of Pathmarks thus encourages teachers to teach in the complex play between light and darkness rather than in the permanent and often rabid zeal of that shining Sun of Truth, which causes a blindness masquerading dangerously as enlightenment.

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Published in:

Yu Jie (2018) The Taoist pedagogy of pathmarks: critical reflections upon Heidegger, Lao Tzu, and Dewey. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Seiten: 23-41

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-01605-0_3

Referenz:

Yu Jie (2018) "View the stars by day" in a deep dark well, In: The Taoist pedagogy of pathmarks, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 23–41.