The purpose of this paper is to clarify the characteristics of the educational theory of the older Natorp by analyzing the meaning of “insight” which forms the ultimate principle of his philosophy of education.
Hence the origin and development of his concept of “insight” which he first organized into a system during the latter period of his philosophical thinking is examined and at the same time the particular nature of his principle of “insight” is clarified by connecting it with his principles of “society” and “work”.
Next, from the originality discovered in his principle of insight, we have summarized the characteristics of his later educational thought under two viewpoints :
1. First his educational philosophy is constructed in relation to a reform of real society. Under this aspect his educational thought is close to the educational thought of Pestalozzi and Plato rather than Kantian.
2. We point out the dialectical nature of his systematization of pedagogy and make it clear that this is Platonic rather than Hegelian.
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