ロジャーズに対するブーバーの異議

援助的関係における「対等性」と「受容」の問題をめぐって

抄録

This paper deals with the problem of the 'helping relationship' and tries to clarify the real position of Buber when in the dialogue between him and Rogers, he raises objections against the latter. The aim of our discussion is to bring into focus the peculiar nature of Buber's thought who takes a third stand between two positions-on the one side Buber's opposition to the indoctrinating type of the Zwangsschule-which he shares with Rogers, and on the other hand Buber's opposition to the Freie Schule leaving room for growth.
First, we consider Buber's argument that there is a limit to the proposal of Rogers who insists that a relation of equality exists between the giver and receiver of assistance (help).
Secondly we examine, rising up to Buber's human ontology, the problem of the attitude required of the assisting person through Roger's concept of 'acceptance' in contrast to Buber's concept of 'confirmation' (Bestätigung) of 'potentiality'. We discover there in the relation to the assisted person the confirmation of a power directed toward the realization of truth (Wahrheit) as the basic attitude of the assisting person.