교육 가치로서 행복의 타당성 논의

A Discourse on Happiness as an Educational Value

This paper concerns on the concept of happiness that can be accepted as an educational value. For this three tasks have been taken to examine. Firstly, what is the demarcation of happiness that involves the total and hedonic conceptions but excludes the capricious ones and so-called pig-happiness, so that happiness is to be a state of mind. Also the concept of happiness has been regarded as the best state of mind such as apatheia and ataraxia. Even though the concept is taken negatively as the Romanticists asserted, the positive account should be taken seriously. Secondly, it has been examined whether the concept of happiness as an educational aim can be justified or not. Behind the Romanticism on happiness, the concept has been regarded as an ideal so that happiness seeking education can be fallen into some serious defects as non-realistic in the educational institutions. Thirdly, it has tried to set up the criteria for examining the validity of happiness when we take it into account in the educational context. According to MaFall’s three conceptions such as contentment, affirmation and justified affirmation ones, we can pick some crucial defects from happiness seeking education and then establish the concept of ‘Being a Person’ that implies the meta-volition of ‘happy person.’