Vol. 2 No. 1 (2022): January-June
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Value of the academic spirit for Education in Josef Pieper: Relief for the burden of the functionary soul of our time

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  • Ignacio Sergio Leonetti
Ignacio Sergio Leonetti
Universidad Católica de La Plata
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21555/cya.i2.1.2466

Published 2022-01-08

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Leonetti, I. S. (2022). Value of the academic spirit for Education in Josef Pieper: Relief for the burden of the functionary soul of our time. Conocimiento Y Acción, 2(1), 19–33. https://doi.org/10.21555/cya.i2.1.2466

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Abstract

The technical empowerment and materialistic turn of the past centuries have left an indelible mark on the humanity of our time. The guide that spiritual life could suppose rooted in a metaphysics that sustains it has been blurred in time with the total mechanization of life itself. Unfortunately, these circumstances are manifested in the symptom of the loss of a real communication and dialogue between people, problematically replaced by the formal - and totalitarian - language of the new advertising and proselytizing sophistics.

Against this stands the thought of Josef Pieper who urges us to recover spiritual life in the spirit of contemplation so that man can find himself and others. To do this, it traces the academic spirit in Higher Education as an essential path. All the sciences –especially when they are taught- must live “the academic” in its most original sense to be forgers of thinking souls and stop the totalitarian advance of automatism in the life of every human being.

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