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is a kind of self-forming accomplished through work. It is characterized in that it transforms man via his transformation of the world.

Work rs Bildung, in the double meaning of the word: on the one hand, it forms, transforms the World, humanizes it by making it more adaprcd to A4an... on the other, it Eansforms, forms, educates man, it humanizes him by bringing him into greater conformity with the idea that he has of himself, an idea that-in the beginning-is only tn abstract idea, an ideal. (Kojeve 1934: 52)

is a life task that belongs to everyone, and it occurs both inside and outside educational institutions. It is more the nature of a process and project that aims at the transformation of the self, and not in any single direction.

For Gadamer, Bildung is a life task that belongs to everyone, and it occurs both inside and outside educational institutions. It has no socioeconomic connotation but is more the nature of a process and project that aims at the transformation of the self, and not in any single direction. People can be well educated and otherweis have rather little in common.

is a matter for youth. Ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

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