Wartości pedagogiczne w nauczaniu Dōgena
Pedagogical values in the teaching of Dōgen

Summary/Abstract: This paper constitutes an introduction to the pedagogical thought of Dōgen Kigen, who is considered to be one of the most outstanding representatives of Japanese culture. The author makes the reader acquainted with the historic, cultural and social determinants existing in Japan and in China in the years in which the Japanese Buddhist in question was living, and he also presents the vicissitudes of life, and the writing, of this teacher of Buddhism. In turn, he presents the philosophical views of Dōgen, in particular, those connected with metaphysics and ethics. He also places emphasis upon the significance of the religious aspect of the activity and writing of this Japanese Zenji, connected with religious anthropology, and also with eschatology and soteriology. In more detail, he focuses his attention upon the ideal of education in the pedagogics of Dōgen in his principal treatise Shōbōgenzō, referred to as the Great Human Being. He presents as well the essential pedagogical values in the writing activity of the master being discussed, such as dialogicality, authentism, commitment and responsibility, akin to the output of Western existential pedagogics, and also other values of social character.

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