《大人》になること/《大人》であることの可能性

超越論的な〈大人〉の失効を越えて

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It has been self-evidently assumed that children would grow to adulthood through the participation in the adult community. But we can't do so any longer, because the young today have been unsable to feel actually themselves adults beyond twenty years of age. The main purpose of this paper is to clarify what our becoming/being “Adult” means in a social and ethical sense at the present day.
To begin with, we will analyze the mechanism that children heretofore became adult by constructing the transcendental 'Adult' through the interaction of experiential world and conforming themselves to the transcendental 'Adult' as 'the privileged other restored norms.'
Secondly, we will grasp the modern conditions under which we have sought for universal and inclusive norms exhaustively, with the result that the transcendental 'Adult' has emptied, this mechanism has lapsed, and we have faced the difficulty in growing to adulthood.
Finally, we will find out the new way we extricate ourselves from the present blockade and attain becoming/being 'Adult' in the different way from constructing the transcendental 'Adult' as ever. Then, we will suggest that we give up persisting the identity of the self, accept the contingency and changeability of the self actively, and open up the possibilities of communication between ourselves and the other with whom we don't share norms.