Stanley Cavell's "Acknowledgment" and Its Implications for Moral Education: In Relation to the Ordinary and Skepticism

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  • スタンリー・カベルの「承認」概念が拓く道徳教育の展望 --日常性・懐疑論との関連から--
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This paper analyzes the concept of "acknowledgment" proposed by the American philosopher Stanley Cavell. He argues that in our ordinary lives we forget how our own knowledge is working, and that skepticism is a moment for us to remember it. In addition, there can be found an asymmetry between skepticism with respect to material objects and skepticism with respect to other minds; in response, our knowledge has two dimensions about which these two skepticisms respectively remind us. One is a dimension in which things are recognized in a general fashion; the other a dimension of our individual ways of inhabiting that epistemological condition—namely, our particular "voices." The latter requires acknowledgment, in which the other's voice and my voice are simultaneously acknowledged in the form of granting that they are necessarily different by accepting, not interrogating, our finite knowledge. This form of acknowledging others, which goes beyond the problem of narcissism that accompanies the epistemological way of knowing others, has implications for contemporary moral education in fostering caring minds.

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