ABSTRACT
Education as Bildung should be understood as a development of self-consciousness that advances in the form of conceptual self-articulation. The latter is a dimension of the individual's participation in the social practice of reasoning, of undertaking inferentially structured commitments by playing the game of giving and asking for reasons. One's mastery of the social activity of inferential reasoning in the forms of determinate negation of and mediation between concepts presupposes one's ability to accommodate others' perspectives to the concepts and to explore the objective inferential domains of the latter. The stigmatization and elimination of distinctive particularities takes place in interpersonal relations as well as in socially organized labor. In other words, politics, interpersonal relations and labor are all domains of the realization of Bildung. After all, Bildung as self-articulation is the realization of self-consciousness, and self-consciousness is the ultimate source of mindedness that all human beings – with or without disabilities – share.
