The Inner Logic of Fichte's Educational Freedom:A Vision of Politics and Philosophy
Freedom has been valued as a noble educational ideal in the history of Western education.However,problems exist such as alienation of the spirit of freedom and conceptualization of the understanding of freedom in the thoughts on the correlated education and freedom.Believing that freedom was the ultimate goal of all human activities including education,Fichte established a freedom-centered ideological system that involves a dual dimension of internal free will and external legal rights.The free will reflects the primitive and infinite driving force of human's inner tendency towards freedom,which not only determines one's choice of good or evil,but also reveals an individual's willingness and ability to self-determination,choice,and responsibility,and the legal rights aim to demonstrate the plurality of the way of human existence.The relationship based on legal rights illustrates the dual premises of individuals'access to freedom:limiting oneself while recognizing others'right of freedom.Fichte's argument of free will and legal rights revealed humans'internal and external inter-subjectivity that clarified the homogeneity of freedom of individuals and communities and the essential relationship between freedom and education.Fichte emphasized that education is key to achieving human freedom and self-improvement as a cultural approach to a community's development.Authors thus proposed that education must ensure higher education institutions'freedom of teaching and learning while stimulating individual intrinsic freedom and motivation of cultivation.Specifically,this requires both an individual's duty and a community's mission to be fulfilled for the freedom of education by the academic class to coordinate and maintain the balance between personal and social development and advance the moral and cultural development of a community.
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