메이지 전기 도덕교육과 교육칙어에 관한 고찰

Abstract

This paper aims to find out the process of forming a special system of thinking among the modern Japanese who are strongly aware of the country and people, and even recognize the neighboring countries of East Asia, through moral education. In other words, I would like to examine the characteristics of the moral education of elementary schools before the promulgation of ‘The Imperial Rescript on Education’ and what it was intended to pursue through it, and consider the historical significance of ‘the Imperial Rescript on Education’ from the standpoint of moral education of modern Japan.　This is none other than the origin of the artificial system of recognizing the country, people, and the world of the modern Japanese, in which particular systems of thought, ethics and historical awareness of the nation and people, were created and followed through and formed public memories and national views. We hope that this will provide a small clue to understanding and analyzing ‘the national polity’ of modern Japanese society and the essence of the problem of politically more and more rightist in modern Japanese society.