著者

田口 仁久

出版者

The Japanese Society for the Philosophy of Education

雑誌

教育哲学研究 (ISSN:03873153)

巻号頁・発行日

no.25, pp.35-49, 1972

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J. S. Mill, one of the representative English thinkers, is at the same time an important figure in the history of education. His ethical philosophy was formulated after a spiritual crisis. The system was based on the idea that theatimate sanction of morality consists in the sentiment of man, especially in his altruistic social sentiments, as a result of this theory and of his understanding of English society, Mill was forced eventually to attach great importance to the cultivation of sentiments.<BR>Furthermore, Mill believed that social sentiments pan be nourished through the medium of the imagination. While regarding art education in general and culture of the sentiments as an effective means to that end, he valued poetry as the "better part" or as the "queen", and thus he regarded poetry education as the most effective means for the cultivation of the sentiments.