W obronie edukacji liberalnej (Liberal Education) – na kanwie rozważań Allana Blooma
In The Defense Of Liberal Education In The Light Of Considerations Of Allan Bloom

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the concept of liberal education whose supporter and propagator was an American political philosopher, Allan Bloom. Its Authoress refers to Bloom’s work The Closing of the American Mind where he deeply analyzed standards of the American education of the higher level. Facing threats which he saw in the academic life, he took a position that the only solution of that problem was to create a good basis of philosophical and humanistic studies which would require the authentic study of the history of great philosophical questions and answers. Bloom wanted to recover an ideal of man educated by great literary works and books of great thinkers. He was an adher-ent of returning to education in liberal arts. That type of education was called by him as the liberal education, where the word “liberal” was used in the sense of liberal arts. In addition to a short characteristic of his liberal education, Authoress also shows a way how Bloom was criticized by opponents of his model of education. He was accused of traditionalism, conservatism, fundamentalism, political dogmatism. Authoress claims that views on education presented in The Closing of the American Mind were not based on any political doctrine, because one can find in Bloom no clear political program. He decidedly defended education against politicization which deprives education of its autonomy. He maintained that universities were to be schools of independent thought, where to search knowledge be a purpose in itself, and in no way referring to the tempo-rality of social or political life.

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