抄録
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the moral (practical) and political side of the goal of postwar Spranger's education of the conscience. One problem which Spranger after living through the Nazi period faced in the formation of democracy was the phenomenon of lack of individual conscience which is supposed to support democracy. According to Spranger the lack of conscience in the single individual leads to a break-down of democracy. What he calls 'education of the conscience' aimed at the formation of men who support democracy at their interior spirit. In this paper this problem shall be discussed from the following viewpoints. First, I shall try to arrive at an understanding of the characteristics of Spranger's view of the conscience, then proceed to explain the social meaning of conscience by examining the connection of conscience and cultural criticism, and then go on to discuss the content of the goal of conscience education from the viewpoint of reconstruction of democracy in postwar Germany.
