The Philosopher The Hamlet
Nicolaus Driyarkara (1913-1967) is an important name in the field of philosophy in Indonesia. But the man himself is little known. The people who would know him are mostly limited to leaders of the Catholic church, those in the field of education, and a smattering of intellectuals. This is probably because Driyarkara was a Jesuit priest, a teacher and a philosopher, who once taught at the Sanata Dharma Institute of Higher Learning for Teachers in Yogyakarta. But his contributionsparticularly in the fields of education and humanistic thoughtlive on in the name of the Driyarkara School of Philosophy in Jakarta.
September 10, 2013
In the village of Kedunggubah, Kaligesing, in the Purworejo district of Central Java, stands the little Chapel of St Nikolaus, inaugurated on May 3, 1992, next to the ravine of a rocky little stream that flows through the hamlet.
In the chapel's yard, under a sheltering jackfruit tree is a bust of a man in spectacles on a pedestal made of black river rock standing one meter high. This is the likeness of Nicolaus Driyarkara, Jesuit priest, academic
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