STUDY OF THE REEXAMINATION OF MODERN VALUES

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This study intended to reexamine the values in early modern period which gave the grounds to our present ones. Because nowadays we come up against such confusion of our civilization that these old values and the social publicness are collapsing and the negative sides of scientific technologies are increasingly becoming acuter problems, our study has a pressing importance. In current year particularly we tried to examine the genealogy of the modern concept of "citizens" and its current problematic and thus described the "citizenship" which is needed today.As results of this research, Kurihara (head investigator) followed the idea of "cooperative liberty" in political documents in the Puritan Revolution period and the theory of social contract of Rousseau, Kant, Hegel and so on. And Kurihara also examined the ethics of industrial production, arguing the importance of giving the "stories" to the productive activities. Yamauchi traced the genealogy of the concept of "person" in the context of medieval philosophers such as Duns Scotus and discussed the philosophical ground of uniqueness of my personality. Kido argued the current meaning of the enlightenment philosophy by following the genesis of an idea of "citizens" in Kant's Enlightenment-Article.In these studies we traced the modern values such as "freedom", "citizen", "person" and "majority" back to the origins and reconstructed these original contexts. And thus, we think, we could offer significant perspectives to our present society.