Dreaming the future – An education for responsibility/humanity. In the wake of e. Levinas and j. Derrida

Abstract

Presented at a colloquium «On the Diferences: Philosophy, Culture and Education in 21st Century Societies», the text of this communication takes for the incipit of its reflection the words of  Margrethe Vestager – according to which «We may have new technology, but we don’t have new values. [...] My first priority will always be humans. Technology must serve us» – in order to question, without moralism nor technophobia, what it should be like to educate for the vigilance and the solitary courage of thought and for the dignity of an in-formed and responsible humanity, and it will present (meta-)ethical responsibility – as the source and the value of values as well as the ethos and the un-condition of a human finally worthy of the name – not only as the only one up to the challenges of our time, but also as the only one that allows us to dream, lucidly, with the promise of a culture and of a tomorrow of peace, of well-being and of growing justice.