인성과 인성교육에 관한 헌법적 고찰

Abstract

Although the Character education promotion act is enforced, there is so much confusion about directions and contents of a character education in the education field. The most important reason is that the concept of a character is not established clearly. But it is not easy to establish the concept of a character firmly. The concept of a character should be established on the basis of the human dignity, because the human dignity is the highest ideology of the Constitution of the Republic of Korea. The human dignity can be defined as autonomous reason and social morality which constitute the contents of honorable personality. In short, The human dignity is humanity. The Constitution doesn't design subjective human beings nor communal human beings. The Constitution designs subjective and communal human beings as the constitutional human beings. With the constitutional point of view, ideal human beings are subjective and communal human beings, who realize the human dignity. The word of ecological metaphor expresses this human beings is a ssiol and a ssiol is a trademark of Ham, Seok-heon's thought. Definition provisions regarding character and character education etc in the Character education promotion act should be prescribed to realize the constitutional values on the basis of the constitutional human beings. I try to make new definitions about a character, a character education, core values, core virtues, core abilities. A character is subjective and communal natures and subjective and communal competences to relize the human dignity. A character education is a education for the purpose of cultivating a character. Core values are the constitutional values such as the human dignity, liberty, equality, democracy, the rule of law, respect for basic human rights. core virtues are wisdom, courage, temperance, humanity, justice, transcendence. Core abilities are cognitive and emotional and behavioral abilities to practice core values