Herder: uma proposta de reforma radical na educação

This paper investigates, from a pedagogical and philosophical perspective, the proposal of “humankind formation” in the writings of J. G. Herder. I intend to analyze his proposal for educational reform, whose radicalism is a milestone for the German educational system, being implemented by Herder in his passage as adviser of the dukedom of Weimar. Severe critic of the Enlightenment, Herder intended to reconcile the scientifical and philosophical rationality to the feeling and the passion, which are nature of the nineteenth-century German literature, forging an idea of formation (Bildung) that besides to bring rationality and wisdom in itself, is also constituted by emotion, creativity, culture and history.