民主主義と教説
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Democracy is first of all considered as a political system, the characteristic of which is "Government by all the people governed." Democracy is a way of thinking which cannot exist without the idea of freedom. However, "rule" or "government" imposes some kind of restrictions upon those who are governed. Moreover, there is no socicty free of restrictions of any kind. Hence arises the problem of relationship between freedom and restriction in democracy. Freedom in a democratic society should not be realized in sacrifice of freedom of others. Freedom in such a society should be shared by every people equally. Herein lies the basic foundation for justification of restrictions. In other words, a democratic society is a society in which people voluntarily accept the restriction. This is made possible only when all the people fully understand the necessity of restrictions. Therefore, it is imperative to develop and form among people the common interest in establishing the democratic human relations, that is, relationship befitting the dignity of man. The very function of democratic education is the endeavor to develop and form such interest. Thus it is a matter of great importance to seek after the common denominator and prerequisite for the existence of democratic society, namely the doctrine in democracy. This doctrine should not oppress the freedom but should support the protest against the infringement upon the freedom. Since it is the ethical postulate for each free individual to realize the freedom equally, this doctrine means the ethics of "being interested in and considering" the freedom of others. Thus what makes the democratic political system possible in its essence is the above-mentioned ethics in democracy which forms the core of the democratic doctrine. Such doctrine requires the conversion of our view of man, that is, the conversion from the naturalistic view of man which is bound by the inveterate self-assertion to the view of man which tries to understand man in relation to the transcendental being which envelopes both ego and others.
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