Sándor Karikó Europeanism as Identity and Education

General cultural meaning: the undertaking of shaping an identity of a defined „common fate”. Cohesional force, stemming from intellectual-moral-educational values. Europeanism: the individual itself steps on the stage of history. Receives respect of social scale and effect: the individual is above all. One becomes what he has made of himself. Sándor Márai wrote: we must not live in some kind of „West-enchantment”. The West has no intellectual-moral right to expect head bowing and imparting to us a feeling of inferiority. Finally, we take into consideration Milan Kundera’s statement: we experience the overture to the death of the individual. Unfortunately. We have to construct the European identity and education under the social circumstances.