- 著者
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長井 和雄
- 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.1962, no.6, pp.1-15, 1962-06-25 (Released:2009-09-04)
We cannot say that every generation of youth becomes a moving force in history. The frightfully complicated organization of our objective society of today works automatically in such a way that the creative energy of youth in the cultural fields may be crushed and completely dried up. Education, while paying steady attention to the development of the more realistic side of cultural life, as represented in politics, economics, and sociology, must at the same time play another role in life. That is to say, so far as the ideal side of life is concerned, it must continually re-evaluate the educational meaning of the methods of teaching what may be looked on as the flowering of human culture, the arts, science, and religion, all of which have value in themselves. This it does by keeping in the center of its vision the uniqueness and inconvertibility of general culture. In these matters it is necessary for educators to expend great efforts so that each individual may reach a definite level of historical and cultural awareness. At this point the question of the gestaltende Idee, in Spranger's sense of the word, becomes a matter of educationl importance. It transcends positivistic knowledge of the objective side of culture and, laying hold of the soul of the free man, gives him the ethical elan which looks toward the future. By giving a central position to this gestaltende Idee, educators can give to the younger generation the possibility of becoming a moving force in history. This they do when they create a community of values in which the individual, retaining his uniqueness, works closely with his fellows in activity of worth.