Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Neda Mohajel ¹
• Muhammad Asghari ²

¹ Postdoctoral student of philosophy at University of Tabriz

² professor of philosophy- University of Tabriz

Abstract

In this article, we try to show that in the present century, one of the theorists in the field of philosophy of education and training, Richard Rorty, the American neopragmatist philosopher, by criticizing the past philosophical thinking about education and training to the issue of "self-creation" as the central core of education and training in the era the present emphasizes. According to this philosopher, the purpose of education in schools, universities and educational centers is to help a person to create himself. According to this philosopher, education in educational centers, especially in America, is generally divided into two parts. In the pre-university stage and schools, a person is taught to socialize, and in the university and academic stage, a person learns to engage in self-creation and to question the image he had in the previous period of pre-university education. To analyze the key concept of self-creation, Rorty uses the updated thoughts of John Dewey, Foucault, Nietzsche and even Heidegger to show that the philosophy of contemporary education in the current century needs to place this concept in the center of its analysis.

Keywords

• self-creation
• education
• philosophy
• neopragmatism and Richard Rorty