The metaphysical foundations of "peace education" based onKant's critical philosophy

“和平教育”的理念在于“个性教育”。康德认为，“人”是道德律的主体，是自由之比，是和平之比。根据日本宪法精神，2006年《教育基本法》第1条和第2-(v)条所宣称的“和平”和“人格”的哲学依据，与康德的和平主义作为人类最终目的的道德目的论教育学相对应。首先，从事教育的人必须具有“人格”，即“目的也是责任”的“道德目的论意识”：“自己的完善”和“他人的幸福”。

The idea of “peace education” consists in “education towards personality”. According to Kant, “person” is the subject of the moral law as ratio cognoscendi of freedom which should be ratio essendi of peace. The philosophical grounds of “peace” and “personality” declared in Article 1 and Article 2-(v) of the Basic Act of Education (2006) in accordance with the spirit of the Constitution of Japan correspond to Kant’s moral-teleological pedagogy for pacifism as the final end of the human being. First of all, persons concerned with education must have “personality”, that is, “moral-teleological consciousness” of “the ends that are also duties”: “one’s own perfection” and “thehappiness of others”.