Philosophical Aspects of Fundamental Ideas: Ideas and Concepts

We consider the term aidea from a philosophical point of view. In particular we are interested in the concept s origins, its relevance to human thinking and in particular in its pedagogical value for computer science lessons in schools as well as universities. Since the concept of fundamental ideas in computer science has been seized, extended, and reviewed by other authors and applied to lessons, often with a different understanding of the defined terms, we wish to explain some of the objectives of the approach in more detail and in particular clarify the relation between concept and idea in order to provide a common understanding of the relevant notions.