- 著者
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田中 智志
- 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.1991, no.63, pp.94-106, 1991-05-10 (Released:2010-01-22)
- 参考文献数
- 30
The purpose of this paper is to give an at least somewhat satisfactory answer to the question why Counts linked indoctrination with democracy. In order to understand the relation of these two concepts, I interpret it not from the premises of Marxism-Leninism but, in accordance with the two following moments, from his theory of social reconstruction. One moment if the historical relativism implied in the historical concurrence theory of his friend Villard; the second is the moral 'faith' which is consonant with 'American culture', or 'American civilization conform to Villard's conceptions.As a result, the following conclusions are drawn : 1) Counts' democracy is neither a form of a narrow political system nor a doctrine for constructing a closed world. Basically, it implies moral faith concomitant to social relations in a typically American agricultural society. 2) This democracy is neither something which the child can weigh and choose nor a substantialized value nor something which can be taught as a political doctrine; it is essentially the outcome of a subconscious compulsory act (coercion) of the American= democratic social order. 3) However, at a time when the democratic social system and the faith embodying American culture are blocked, the school must increasingly strengthen the compulsory action (i.e. indoctrination) in order to save democracy. 4) Finally, Villard's historical relativism was chosen by the sociologist Counts as his own standpoint (normative proposition) and serves as a politico-philosophical enhancement of his theoretical moment; including some degree of conjecture, I may say his American 'faith' as such becomes the existential moment so to speak for overcoming a crisis.