著者

堀内 守

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.1963, no.8, pp.32-49, 1963-06-25 (Released:2010-05-07)

参考文献数

53

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I have tried in this essay to follow the educational thought of Comenius in its formation and evolution. Through a study of his main writings I have endeavored to make clear the logical development of his thought, and through an analysis of the sketches of seventeenth century urban life and development of industrial techniques that appear throughout his writings I have tried to bring out the practical meaning of his educational theory.In his The Labyrinth of the World, a work of realistic criticism of the turmoil and destruction that accompanied the Thirty Years War, Comenius returned to the idea of creation and made it clear that man is capable of transforming the earth and establishing peace. This theme of harmony he carried over into his Didactica Magna, and education as the technique of forming man was systematized therein as an academic discipline. This theme was developed further in the Janua and Schola Ludus which included discussions on the development of industrial techniques and the corresponding new society. In the Panpaedia the theme developed further into an analysis of human desire. This was the system coordinating the tremendous mechanism of the Pansophia and the movement of knowledge, the system that envisaged the realization on earth of the “religion of paradise.”