PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Koťa, Jaroslav
AU  - Strouhal, Martin
TI  - Controversy of Humanism and its Heritage in the Social Sciences and Pedagogy
DP  - 2017 Feb 1
TA  - e-Pedagogium
PG  - 25--34
VI  - 17
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/epd.2017.003
IS  - 12137758
AB  - The starting point of this text is the question of humanity in the social sciences and pedagogy after six centuries of the existence of humanism. The text describes the evolution of humanism and its various appraisals. It deals with the problem of conceptualization of "humanism" and "human" as these concepts are philosophical or ideological, and not scientific. The authors try to capture the ambiguity of humanistic ideas influencing cultural and sociopolitical European history. The problem of reductionism in the social sciences is mentioned within this context. The scientific perspective only focuses on a limited number of aspects of human life, not on the complexity of man, which is also a problem of alternative pedagogies with their conception of man. In conclusion the authors formulate their standpoint towards the danger of so-called "vanishing of humanity".