Didattica della filosofia: una riflessione a partire da Kant e Hegel per analizzare l’intreccio tra conoscenze e competenze

Abstract

Starting from the perspectives of Kant and Hegel for what concerns the didactics of philosophy, we try to show that the gap between “teaching how to philosophise” and “teaching philosophy” conceals many consonances. Hence, Kant and Hegel pedagogical reflections are the common thread for an inquiry about contemporary didactics of philosophy. In particular, we try to reason through the concepts of “knowledge” and “skills”, which are actually unavoidable in didactics, underlying their mutual necessity in the process of learning/teaching philosophy. That is clear if we consider philosophy to be an art, whose training requires to “put your hands in the dough”, as with every other art or profession. If philosophy is an art and its learning/teaching process is a training, then there is the problem of its standard. The standard of philosophy turns out to be not a mere list of contents, but a twist of knowledge and skills.