니체와 청년교육

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<Abstract> Nietzsche and the Youth Education Jeong, Seongkwan(Wonkwang University) Young people are these days in a crisis of moral culture and the youth education of Korea is in doubt of its practical effect. In this situation it will be a great help for desirable course of the Korean youth education, if we ruminate on Nietzsche's thoughts of body and his critique of culture and education in 19th century. Nietzsche was much concerned about the youth education running up just for knowledge and for practical use. He looked upon the cause of such an education as an academical or a “theoretical optimism” and took precautions against it. He pointed out that the education just for knowledge makes a human being an “educated Philistine”, and further destroys human lives and the “instinct of nature”, and lastly leads mankind into a“practical pessimism”. He made clear that such “the most sublime ethical deeds” as “the stirrings of pity, self-sacrifice, and heroism”and the “calm sea of the soul, so difficult to attain”are never products of a logical mechanism. This point of view needs all attention especially on the part of the moral educators who have these days a preference only for the critical thinking training. According to Nietzsche, since human beings can constitute and realize themselves only through the body, “the despisers of the body”are cannot create anything more beyond themselves and go so far as to ruin themselves. The body doesn't depend on the soul, but the soul depends on the body, thus mens sana in corpore sano. These thoughts of Nietzsche can be a good guideline for changing of the current Korean youth education which gives little attention to the emotion and behavior of the youth.