3 A Pedagogy of Emergent Self-Cultivation; Why Students Should Have a “Sameness” and Why They Should Not

This article looks at the nature of individuality and potentiality through the lens of the transcendentals. To do this, it develops an interpretation of how the medieval philosophers discussed the transcendentals in the light of their causal powers. Utilizing a notion of emergent causal powers, I tentatively suggest a concept of higher education where the commonality of the transcendentals’ properties and powers so related offer a hermeneutic account of how we might create a pedagogy from the transcendentals nexus which has explanatory powers for our being.