Towards Maturity:An Approach to Understand Kant's Educational Theory
In Kant's view of enlightenment,man need to get out of immaturity twice-the first time is to get out of natural immaturi-ty,and the second time is to get out of self-caused immaturity.Getting out of immaturity does not mean reaching maturity,but means starting to move towards maturity,which requires three conditions.This paper reinterprets Kant's educational thoughts from the perspec-tive of moving towards maturity.In Kant's view,the mission of education is to make the educatees reach"educational maturity",that is,to support them to get out of natural immaturity,to reach natural maturity,and to avoid falling into self-caused immaturity,so that they can be able to move towards actional and political maturity.Educational maturity is both the mission of education and the boundary of education.Education cannot create mature people,nor can it change society from a level higher than the status quo.Education and politics can only promote human progress in their reciprocal relationship.
Kantenlightenmenttowards maturityeducation and politics
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