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Equinox – An Educational Approach following Jan Patočka’s »Ketzerische Essays«
Equinox describes the moment when daytime and nighttime are of exact equal duration, which occurs only twice a year. In his »Heretical Essays« the Czech Philosopher Jan Patočka (1907–1977) tries to explain the traumatic experiences of the Twentieth Century with the subtle displacement of the ›Night‹ as a symbol of deficient knowledge since the age of Enlightenment. This article tries to develop a pedagogical approach which refers to his idea of human existence as ›Movement‹ in order to create a new balance of light and darkness.