Pàthei màthos. The modernity of tragic between theory and educational design

Abstract

In the Greek classic age it was usual to consider the deep relation between features of the life each other opposed, and the relationship between suffering and knowledge is a clear exemplification of this. A link that, if it can effectively describe a determinant part of having-experience by man, can at the same time restore the sense of a positive and activating constructive proceeding, even through a condition that is characterized by tragedy. But to be aware about this tragic nature may be a pedagogical quality useful to give direction to the efforts of a practical education oriented to those strategies related to take care about the human uncertainty. All this, promoting competences that, starting from the assumption of this finitude, are able to look forward towards an infinity future that has to be still molded.