This paper attempts to interpret the views of Jaspers on
Sollen, and thus to arrive at a deeper insight into moral education.
Jaspers distinguishes the objective
Sollen in the common sense from the “Existen tial
Sollen”. The former becomes rigid and cannot fulfil a lifelike function. On the other hand, the Existence, in the particular historical situation in which it is located, and when it acts from the necessity of the
So-tun-müssen (be forced to act in such a way) turns into the Existential
Sollen and the objective
Sollen can thus in every situation be grasped anew.
From these considerations we can be lead to understand that as long as moral education repeats only an indoctrination of the objective
Sollen, it will be nothing but an inculcation of a rigidified
Sollen and consequently provoke the pupil's antagonism. Hence, it is important that the self be aroused to re-act to a particular situation unconditionally from a deep and necessary consciousness, and the self thereby be lead to make an objective
Sollen its own (
aneignen). For this reason the more the teacher tries in earnest to indoctrinate the pupil with the objective
Sollen, the more he ends up in the contradiction that the
Sollen becomes rigidified ; it becomes necessary, there-fore, that the teacher enters into a communication with the pupil.
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