ჯალაღონია, დემურ / Jalaghonia, Demur2024-07-152024-07-152024-02-14თბილისის უნივერსიტეტის დაარსებისადმი მიძღვნილი სამეცნიერო კონფერენცია. თსუ 106, თეზისები, 2024, გვ.: 112-115 / Scientific conference dedicated to the foundation of Tbilisi University. TSU 106, Abstracts, 2024, pp.: 112-115https://dspace.tsu.ge/handle/123456789/2479Ancient philosophical thought preceded the ideas of the Enlightenment by a millennium. “Enlightenment’s program was the disenchantment of the world; liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters” (Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno). The education system is the firstborn of antiquity. Various subversive actions for the birth of free thought were carried out in different schools and academies. What happened in ancient schools or academies? Universities are formed in the Middle Ages. What is a university? Is it a temple of knowledge or wisdom? University means community. It was the union of a teacher and a student (universitas magistrorum et scholarium). In the Middle Ages, university schools were mostly established at the cathedrals. Traditionally, the “university” is a place for searching and establishing the truth, as well as a place of joint research-study, and the truth, as “man’s deconstructive necessity”. In the new era, the new mission of the new university was based on the idea of unity of teaching and research. The university was simultaneously an educational institution and a scientific-research corporation. The philosopher Jaspers considered the university to be the place where the knowledge of the age is most clearly manifested. Where seeking of truth is carried out in the name of truth itself. The seeking of truth is the prerogative of a person as an independent individual (the idea of Jaspers University). It should be said that in 1852, John Henry Cardinal Newman wrote the first book “On the Idea and Function of the University”, where the holistic understanding of the university is preserved. For him, the university is a European phenomenon. He considers the “studio general” conceived in Europe in the late Middle Ages to be its predecessor. We are talking about “liberal arts”, understood as non-pragmatic disciplines. Literally translated, it means “free art”. Even Aristotle gave us its definition, the so-called Trivium and Quadrium. After that, the discourse of the entire university idea moved to the thinking space of philosophers, it is interesting why and what caused this. Traditionally, three stages of the development of the university idea are allocated, which we consider wrong. The Socratic education established in antiquity turned out to be a carrier of much deeper thought and remains a solid methodology till today, because it is not based on fixed doctrines and is always in search of new ideas. In terms of the idea of such education, the student and the teacher are on the same level. The main ground here is the “idea of freedom”. That is why “university education is inherently Socratic” (Karl Jaspers). According to Kant, independent thinking means seeking the highest measure of truth in yourself (in the mind) (Immanuel Kant).otherThesis