著者

西尾 達雄

出版者

日本体育学会

雑誌

体育学研究 (ISSN:04846710)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.28, no.1, pp.13-22, 1983-06-01

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The purpose of this study is to consider the meaning of Rousseau's theory of physical education by examining how his recognition on the history and the urgent problems of the body affected his view of the body. Rousseau recognized the process of civilized society formation in the legislation of "private ownership system" caused by the dependent relation with others which had been resulted from the development of "perfectibilité." On the basis of such historical recognition he grasped the man as being destroyed his "free body" by the interdependence. It was the problem of "physical retrogression." This schema acquired greater importance in the age of "crisis and revolution." Ce fastueux imbécile qui ne sait point user de lui-même et ne met son etre que dans ce qui est étranger a lui (the luxurious imbecile who doesn't know the use of himself and leaves himself to others) can't live any more in the age of change. To live in such an age, man needs to have the body that acts "whenever and any where." The body such conceived was essentially different from the image of man living in“the prosperity of the comming commercial society" which "the theory of the civil physical education" had seeked for. Though the image of the body Rousseau wished for was set up as a modern problem, it had "universal" nature transcendent of the age.