Marie-Élise Zovko is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia, specializing in Platonism, Spinoza, Kant, and German Idealism and Romantic philosophy.John Dillon is Professor Emeritus, a classicist, philosopher, and internationally renowned expert on Platonism. Professor Dillon taught at the University of California, Berkeley, USA (1969–1980), and served as Regius Professor of Classics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (1980–2006).

• Editorial: Deep learning, education and the final stage of automationMichael A. Peters Introduction: Humanism vs. competency: Traditional and contemporary models of educationMarie-Élise Zovko and John Dillon1. Mania and knowledge. From the sting of the gods to Socrates as educational gadflyMichael Erler (Transl. by Marie-Élise Zovko)2. Purification through emotions: The role of shame in Plato’s Sophist 230b4–e5Laura Candiotto3. Worldly and otherworldly virtue: Likeness to God as educational ideal in Plato, Plotinus, and todayMarie-Élise Zovko4. Paideia Platonikê: Does the later Platonist programme of education retain any validity today? John Dillon5. “Πᾶσα μὲν ἡ ποίησις τῷ Ὁμήρῳ ἀρετῆς ἐστιν ἔπαινος”: Greek poetry and paideia in the homiletic tradition of Basil Sarah Klitenic Wear6. Bild, Bildung and the ‘romance of the soul’: Reflections upon the image of Meister EckhartDouglas Hedley7. Kabbalah, education, and prayer: Jewish learning in the seventeenth centuryGerold Necker8. Philosophy of education in early FichteTamás Hankovszky9. Hölderlin’s idea of ‘Bildungstrieb’: A model from yesteryear? Violetta L. Waibel (Transl. by Marie-Élise Zovko)10. Hegel’s concept of education from the point of view of his idea of ‘second nature’Jure Zovko (Transl. by Marie-Élise Zovko)11. Bildung and the historical and genealogical critique of contemporary culture: Wilhelm von Humboldt’s neo-humanistic theory of Bildung and Nietzsche’s critique of neo-humanistic ideas in Classical philology and education Tomislav Zelić12. Friedrich Nietzsche in Basel: An apology for classical studies Carlotta Santini13. Werner Jaeger’s Paideia and his ‘Third Humanism’ Christoph Horn (Transl. by Marie-Élise Zovko)14. Radicalising philosophy of education—The case of Jean-Francois Lyotard Jones Irwin15. The existential concern of the humanities: R.S. Peters’ justification of liberal educationStefaan E. Cuypers16. Paideia, progress, puzzlement Herbert Hrachovec17. Rebirth of paideia: ultimacy and the game of gamesJonathan Doner18. Education is mutual: In search of the ideal interpretationVladimir Stoupel and Judith Ingolfsson