도덕과 철학의 공속성 테제에 입각한 현행 중학 도덕 교과서의 문제성 연구

Abstract

The aim of this essay is to detect the symptoms of longstanding anti-philosophical indoctrination in a Korean current secondary morals textbook and in outline propose a philosophical remedy for them on the basis of the thesis of the ‘same-rootedness of morals and philosophy’ in which I believe. I classified those symptoms into six patterns which are the ‘confusion of morals and conventions’, the ‘amoral authorization and mystification of morals’, the ‘conventional authorization of unilateral and asymmetric duties’, the ‘identification of moral and political resolution of conflicts’, the ‘amoral preference for Korean traditional ideas’ and the ‘instrumental justification of the reunification of the two Koreas’ respectively, and then critically analyzed them one by one. The point of the philosophical remedy for them proposed by me is that we should strictly distinguish what is morals from what is not morals and insert the former in the morals textbooks and not the latter. Conceptually, longstanding conventions, strong national traditions, political compromises, economic cost-benefit analysis and so on have nothing to do with morals. Morals has to do only with the refined fruition of human critical thinking sharply distinguishing between good and evil or right and wrong on the basis of ‘human dignity.’ This Essay makes a point that the morals textbooks should be reformed in accordance with that concept of morals.