The Future of Education

Nowadays, the issue of philosophical anthropology is a definitive reference in Catholic institutions of higher education. The ethical crisis, corruption, the increase of multiple types of violence, the crisis of values, migrations and dehumanization in diverse areas, are global problems and expression of a little strengthened humanistic formation. A philosophical anthropology, therefore, is asked by the senses and meanings of the human in context and from a Catholic social critical perspective, it also encourages reflection by the powers and dimensions of everything that allows us to act in a community sense and under the spirit of the community of the Catholic Church. This means that, beyond the disciplines or professions, the human being requires a formation that calls and stimulates him, in times of social, cultural and economic challenges, to enrich his spirituality in order to contain the associated suffering and act coherently with a system of values ​​that ethically respond to the difficult conditions of the times. Specifically, the Juan de Castellanos University (Tunja-Colombia) as a Confessional institution of higher education, attends in its different humanistic formative processes and from the referents of the referents of the doctrine of the Catholic Church and the institutional missionary structure, the urgent need to incorporate philosophical anthropology as a means of mediation and hermeneutics to understand the reality-formation and superior-spirituality interaction. This hermeneutical complexity underlies the synthesis in what was related in the Emmaus episode: "Jesus walks with the two disciples who have not understood the meaning of their history and are moving away from Jerusalem and the community. To be in his company, walk the path with them. Ask them questions and listen to their version of events to help them recognize what they are experiencing. Then, with affection and energy, he announces the Word, guiding them to interpret the events they have lived in the light of the Scriptures. Accept the invitation to stay with them at dusk: enter his night. Listening, your heart warms and your mind lights up, in the fraction of bread that your eyes open. They themselves choose to resume the journey in the opposite direction without delay, to return to the community, sharing the experience of the encounter with the Risen One". In this order of ideas, the text explores the different aspects that from an understanding of current challenges, help to promote the effort for Catholic higher education institutions to strengthen philosophical anthropology as a point of pedagogical convergence of their missionary actions achieving points of encounter between the guidelines of the Vatican and its concretion in the institutions.    

Keywords: Hermeneutics, Catholic pedagogy, practice of discernment;