Studies in Philosophy and Education ( IF 1.629 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 , DOI: 10.1007/s11217-021-09775-8 Peter Roberts
What might it mean to engage in an educative struggle with death? Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich helps us to answer that question. Tolstoy’s story depicts the life of a man who, when suddenly faced with the prospect of his own death, is at first unable to comprehend the reality of his situation. He is angry, fearful, and disgusted. As he gradually comes to terms with his mortality, he undergoes a harrowing process of transformation, at the heart of which lies the development of his capacity for attention. Drawing on ideas from the French philosopher and pedagogue Simone Weil, it is argued that Ivan’s experience is consistent with the passage from ‘gravity’, through the void of intense suffering, toward a state of grace.
中文翻译:
教育,关注和转变:
与死亡进行教育斗争意味着什么?列夫·托尔斯泰的《伊凡·伊里奇之死》帮助我们回答了这个问题。托尔斯泰的故事描绘了一个人的生活,他突然面对自己的死亡前景,但起初却无法理解他的处境。他很生气,恐惧和厌恶。随着他逐渐适应死亡,他经历了一个痛苦的转变过程,其核心在于提高注意力的能力。有人援引法国哲学家和教育家西蒙娜·威尔(Simone Weil)的观点,认为伊万的经历与从“引力”到痛苦状态的转变,从宽限期到优雅状态的转变是一致的。