ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that people can approach the question at best ex negatio, by first describing the opposite of conceptual articulation. It shows the crucial moment of the development of the ability to do so is one's self-reflective effort to transform one's own desires, needs, values and ideals to argumentative claims which can be accepted by every reasonable person, after the person's critical examination of the claims. The chapter deals with the question of whether the mediation between the universal and the particular is an exclusive prerogative of thinking and argumentation, or whether the mediation could not be carried out also by certain forms of practical activities and social actions. It would be surely contrary to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, if people reduce Bildung to a purely cognitive process, for he situated it primarily in social relations and he saw also labor and production as domains in which Bildung takes place.
