“FEEDBACK” OF THE PLATONIC ACADEMY AND THE POSTMODERN UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The problematic theme of the article is determined by the tendencies of the postmodern pragmatic rationality and hermeneutical interpretation, which exclude the ideals of Truth, the Good and Beautiful substituting them by the interests of money and consumerism. The old principle that the acquisition of knowledge is indissociable from the training of minds, which had been the focus of education for ages is becoming one the false grand narratives of modernity. The relationship of the suppliers and users of knowledge to the knowledge they supply and use is now tending to assume the form of value: university education is and will be implemented in order to be sold; "the goal is exchange".
The purpose of the article is an attempt to conceptually reconstruct the idea of the spiritual factors in the platonic academies; the concern of the authors is not how to manage changes but how best conceptualize and understand them with the interdisciplinary analysis of the place of universities in the postmodern world: the phenomenological, hermeneutic and existential approaches are used to this purpose. The scientific novelty of the article reflects the idea of the platonic dialogism, which played a great sense-forming function in the formation of the classical universities. The emphasis on the "non-structural", "non-linear" ways of obtaining knowledge in the postmodern university leads to the new phenomenon in the university education that has changed the classical status and mission of the university as an agent of Truth, Good and Beautiful, which represent the "non-interested", "non-involved" university being the repository of the cultural heritage of mankind.