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"Philosophy of Education"

2009 year, number 1

THE IRONIC METHOD OF PHILOSOPHIZING AS A WAY TO REALIZE THE AESTHETIC FUNCTION OF PHILOSOPHICAL EDUCATION

I. V. Cherdantseva
Keywords: education, aesthetic function, beauty, cognition, unknown, the ironic method of philosophizing
Pages: 220-226

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study such possibilities of the ironic method of philosophizing thanks to which this method acts as a way of realization of the aesthetic function of philosophical education. In connection with this purpose, the author distinguishes two basic problems. The first problem concerns the aesthetic aspect of the educational process. The second problem is connected with the search for the aesthetic content of irony. Trying to solve these problems, the author investigates how the ontological, epistemological and ethical spheres of the ironic method express the category of beauty.
The article is devoted to study of the aesthetic function of philosophical education. The author comes to a conclusion that the irony can appear as one of the methods which expresses the aesthetic contents of philosophical education.