- 著者
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市村 尚久
- 出版者
- 教育哲学会
- 雑誌
- 教育哲学研究 (ISSN:03873153)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.1968, no.18, pp.34-51, 1968-10-20 (Released:2009-09-04)
- 参考文献数
- 66
Emerson appeared on the scene of American social and cultural history not as a representative of educational philosophy but as a great thinker of the New England school of transcendental thought. While he is the author of an essay “Education”, the foundations of his thought must be sought in the development of his ideas which are to be found in his representative works as a philospher of transcendentalism and are incorporated in his books “Nature”, “The American Scholar”, “Spiritual Laws”, “Self-Reliance”, “Over-Soul”, etc. Hence in this paper we shall clarify the methodological characteristics of Emerson's way of thinking in terms of Emerson's thought in general, i. e. his “intuition”. Furthermore the investigation starts by examining the way in which he interprets “nature”. We have tried to clarify the nature of the goal and method of education of “Man” in Emerson's thought, using as an approach to this problem his educational philosophy as it is by way of conclusion expressed in his “Education”. In doing so we have always endeavoured to discuss the problem within the framework of Emerson's system of thought as a whole. While proceeding on the road of an integrated study of Emerson's educational thought we were able to indicate some problems which still wait for a solution, such as; the influence on Emerson's thought by Russell, Pestalozzi etc. ; the roll Emerson's thought played in the development of “The New Education” based on the principle of pragmatism etc.