Educating in the Horizon of Meaning: Re-ligation as a Philosophical, Anthropological, and Pedagogical Foundation of Human Formation

Abstract

This article proposes a philosophical-pedagogical reflection on re-ligation as a foundation for human formation in the face of the cultural and individualist fragmentation of late modernity. Education consists of reestablishing connections between knowledge and life, individual and community, reason and affectivity. From an interdisciplinary perspective—in dialogue with Zubiri, Ricoeur, Arendt, Freire, Morin, and Levinas—this category is explored as an anthropological structure and an ethical-spiritual horizon. The pedagogy of re-ligation emerges as a humanizing response: a pedagogy of care, dialogue, and interiority that articulates freedom with solidarity, and critical thinking with spiritual experience. It concludes that re-ligating does not imply a return to dogma, but rather opening education to its transformative dimension, where human beings reconcile with themselves, with others, and with the world, constituting a praxis of hope.