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Commitment And Resistance: The "Natural Right" Way Out Of Modern Sex Education Crisis

Posted on:2013-09-21Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y F WuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1107330467484920Subject:Principles of Education
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The philosophy of education attempts to enquire the nature of education, which of fundamental problem is that what the truth of education is. For the truth of education can tell the education in reality right from wrong and good from bad. So the key question is what right education is, or rather, what natural right of education is. The nature of education signifies the ideal or form of education which implies the"to be always" education. And to raise the question what right education is means to inquire the nature of education. Therefore, according to own nature, education can be judged whether right or not. And only if in harmony with its true nature, education could be conceived absolutely right.Human being is confronted the eternal fundamental problem and radical theme. As a practice of cultivating soul, education leads individuals envisage and deliberate the perpetual propositions or the Socrates’problems, that is how mankind can live their lives, what life can be chose to be the most worthwhile to live. Thereby the natural right of education aims at seeking some sort of certainty for education. Compared with the convention of education, the natural right of education as the rational fact is unchangeable, essential, and original. And it summons the philosophy of education to discover and justify its own intrinsic logic. The natural right of education is the ultimate value standard for human race’s education.The natural right is regarded as natural rights in the modernity education. It is the modernity education that gave up pursuing the absolute value, revised the original meaning of natural right of education, and brought about the crises in modernity education-the poverty of individuals’spirit and the nothingness of value. Hence, to solve the crises must understand the mentioned revision of natural right in modernity. No understanding can be grasped until the meaning of natural right can be originally comprehended from the view of the classical education which is beyond modernity. And the nihilism caused by modernity education can be overcome on condition that the understanding of the natural right of education which is inherited from the view of classical education can’t be limited by modern intelligence. Consequently, the philosophy of education has to explore the ultimate standard and lays the new foundation for the practice of education. The natural right of education is a kind of education commitment------the arete of human being and the better life, which exists only in speech. As a "antitoxin", education commitment can withstand a variety of devastating threat to human spirit which is caused by technology. It is inevitable that the timeless conflict between the natural right and convention for education. In reality, education is bound to be the tragic fate as a result of intolerable conventional pressure. Accordingly, education in reality should be humble and solemn, and keep in pursuit of a less good education. Hence, it requires that education should have tragic consciousness and gadfly spirit. And the tragic consciousness is the "hint" of education resistance, which can separate education from the era of impetuous and materialistic and hold human dignity and excellence. Meanwhile, the gadfly spirit can spur education "back to things themselves", and wipe off various distortions caused by the era and accomplish the objects of mankind’s better life. Education resistance can return to absolute value of natural right, which is the very end for classical education always seeking, and thus transcend the dilemma of the rootless value in modernity education."Education resistance", as a way of life, means to insist on the "Education commitment". Through the development of liberal education, reviewing of Socrates’ Problem, renewing what is the most important thing in life and what is the life worth living, education may achieve the excellence and nobleness of humanity.
Keywords/Search Tags:modernity education, classical education, education, education resistance, natural right
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