The formative relationship between human existence and freedom.

Abstract

This paper intends to address the relationship between freedom and Bildung starting from a phenomenological point of view. In this interpretative context, temporality plays an essential role in the pragmatisation of a spiritual form of meaning, in which the true freedom of the human being is formed. Bildung thus reveals its constitutive relationship with freedom as a work of self-formation and it is originally from the Greek experience of existence that man asserts his freedom in the continuous struggle between the power of nature and the power of the spirit. However, concerning the modern age, in which education is no longer guided by pre-established ideals and is constantly subject to the possibility of failure, a renewed educational relationship based on counselling [Beratung] is conceivable. Mutual counselling moves sole dimension of possibility that would give the right space for a meaningful educational self-understanding of human freedom.