- 著者
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東 敏徳
- 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.1986, no.54, pp.15-27, 1986-11-10 (Released:2009-09-04)
- 参考文献数
- 39
Most parents and teachers maintain views on moral education, but these are based on scarcely established knowledge, especially when it comes to moral education. This paper examines the problem, “What should be the basic principle in teaching moral education ?”. For this purpose the characteristic features of R. S. Peters' theory of moral education are studied.R. S. Peters is one of the most influential philosophers of education in Great Britain today. He considers the question of the content of moral education in terms of principles derived from rational ethical judgement and from an analysis of some human activities described by way of his transcendental theory.This article is divided into three sections. In the first, I deal with the merits and demerits of theories of moral education of the past, including the child-centered view and the traditional discipline-centered view of moral education. In the second section, I try to clarify Peters' theory by comparing it with other theories of moral education. Thus it becomes clear that Peters discusses the principle of freedom, equality and respect for others as the principles necessary for the moral judgement answering the question, “Why do this rather than that ?”. In the third section I consider the concept of rational judgement which constitutes the foundation of Peters' theory taking its clue from the philosophy of science.