R.S.Peters wants to overcome not only the defects of authoritarian traditional education but also the defects of laissez-faire romantic education. He wants to sublate both of them. In doing this he relies on holy ground of D. H. Lawrence. Knowledge an...
R.S.Peters wants to overcome not only the defects of authoritarian traditional education but also the defects of laissez-faire romantic education. He wants to sublate both of them. In doing this he relies on holy ground of D. H. Lawrence. Knowledge and moral norms presuppose grounds which justifies them. Peters wants to examine and revise knowledge and moral norms using that ground(modes of experience). However, we can meet that ground only through knowledge and moral norms. Likewise, we can meet that ground only through teachers. Teachers embody that ground himself and teachers behavior manifests their selves. So contents themselves―knowledge and moral norms―become sanctified, and teachers themselves become sanctified. So so-called authoritarian education must be reinterpreted. Submitting to authority is a kind of capability. This capability can be understood more correctly if we study it in connection with the concept Ching(敬) of Neo-Confucianism.