Abstract

Since antiquity, enlightened humanism has been developing the project of combining education through science with science measured by education, in cooperation of humanities and sciences. To the extent that this model is abandoned, it is questionable how the ever-increasing responsibility of scientists is to be perceived as a human one. A renewed humanism should set its measure in being-with and a freedom shared with human beings, things and nature. The university as a place of education would have to reflect on and cultivate not dispositive knowledge, but the relationship of the subject matter to the transcendent alterity of a being and living other.