Existence Way of Human being in the Pestalozzi’s book 『My Research』and Task for Multicultural Education

Abstract

This study explored existence way of human being in the book 『My inquiries in to the course of nature in the development of human being』(1797) which enabled to comprehend human understanding of Pestalozzi and his view of education, and suggested tasks for multicultural education. For this, I tried to understand three types of existence way: natural, social and moral existence way. In a next place, I examined relation between the existence way of human being and education. As a result, I suggested that tasks of multicultural education should be based on Pestalozzi’s concept about moral existence way. In a viewpoint of Pestalozzi, socal existence way is hypocritical because it is took in somewhere between savagery and morality and is maintained by selfishness of animal. Also, this existence way can have a risk to put human being into animal status.