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    A few words on education
    (Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2009) Coşar, Metin
    This paper intends to point at the significance of secular thought in education. A wide range of definitions is attached to secularity/secularism. These can be reduced to a few and all of them can be summarized as ‘thinking and believing without dogma’. In the history of philosophy Xenophanes deserves to be mentioned as the first philosopher who advocated a secular religious belief on anthropological ground. Aristotle’s ‘zoon politikon’ paved the way for an ethicosocial organization based on a philosophical analysis showing the limits of administrative power. Kant’s ethics is secular in that it rests on good will, a capacity inherent in all human beings. No matter what their religious systems are, societies not alien to philosophy succeed in establishing educational institutions founded on freedom of speech on all social problems. Societies living under authoritarian dogmas cannot have the liberty to choose secular organization of education.