Didaktik and Hermeneutics: On the Ontological Ground of the Art of Teaching and the Philosophical Nature of Didaktik

This paper retraces the history of Didaktik and hermeneutics and argues that these two disciplines, seemingly unrelated at first, are deeply intertwined. The paper shows how Didaktik and hermeneutics first appeared in the 17th century, after a long period of gestation begun in Ancient Greece and ca...

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Main Author: Adrian COSTACHE
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Published: Babeș-Bolyai University 2025-08-01
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Online Access:https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/9465
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spelling doaj-art-d9ca3dec74934ad1906ebd7ee3a2ef942025-08-20T03:42:15ZdeuBabeș-Bolyai UniversityStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia2065-94072025-08-0170210.24193/subbphil.2025.2.06Didaktik and Hermeneutics: On the Ontological Ground of the Art of Teaching and the Philosophical Nature of DidaktikAdrian COSTACHE0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4782-9874Department of Didactics of Human Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: adrian.costache@ubbcluj.ro This paper retraces the history of Didaktik and hermeneutics and argues that these two disciplines, seemingly unrelated at first, are deeply intertwined. The paper shows how Didaktik and hermeneutics first appeared in the 17th century, after a long period of gestation begun in Ancient Greece and carried further in the Middle Ages, as twin disciplines meant to address the basic needs of spiritual life. But it shows, their existence was short-lived, for they will disappear without a trace for more than a century only to be reborn again in the thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher under the impetus of the idea of alterity. This, the paper shows, will determine Schleiermacher to probe into the ontological ground of the act of teaching and will transform Didaktik, when understood in its full breadth, into a philosophical discipline. https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/9465DidaktikhermeneuticsFriedrich SchleiermacherWolfgang RathkeCaspar SeidelJan Amos Comenius
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Didaktik and Hermeneutics: On the Ontological Ground of the Art of Teaching and the Philosophical Nature of Didaktik
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia
Didaktik
hermeneutics
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Wolfgang Rathke
Caspar Seidel
Jan Amos Comenius
title Didaktik and Hermeneutics: On the Ontological Ground of the Art of Teaching and the Philosophical Nature of Didaktik
title_full Didaktik and Hermeneutics: On the Ontological Ground of the Art of Teaching and the Philosophical Nature of Didaktik
title_fullStr Didaktik and Hermeneutics: On the Ontological Ground of the Art of Teaching and the Philosophical Nature of Didaktik
title_full_unstemmed Didaktik and Hermeneutics: On the Ontological Ground of the Art of Teaching and the Philosophical Nature of Didaktik
title_short Didaktik and Hermeneutics: On the Ontological Ground of the Art of Teaching and the Philosophical Nature of Didaktik
title_sort didaktik and hermeneutics on the ontological ground of the art of teaching and the philosophical nature of didaktik
topic Didaktik
hermeneutics
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Wolfgang Rathke
Caspar Seidel
Jan Amos Comenius
url https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/9465
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