The Topicality of Hegel’s Concept of “Bildung” for Our Liberal Society

In the following article, I will explain Hegel’s definition of modernity from point view his understanding “Bildung,” since this is a fundamental and newly relevant theme philosophy nowadays. “Bildung” can be transliterated as education, but may also interpreted general formative or developmental process, cultivation (culture, respectively). With term Hegel refers to self-development mind, its coming individual well collective flourishing. The objective spirit manifests itself in culture humans. However, education sense does not take place primarily through transmission information, values, norms, etc. by teacher, “experience” [Erfahrung], which signifies conflicting process spiritual being discovers own identity self, while at same time striving for self-consciousness, self-discovery. Through human mind develops capacity understanding, reflection judgment, thus overcomes natural intellectual, spiritual, normative, aesthetic, etc., poverty.