Inheritance of the Memories of Others as “the Wisdom Co-existence”

キョウセイチ　トシテ　ノ　タシャ　ノ　キオク　ノ　ケイショウ

オカベ, ミカ

Okabe, Mika

金, 正美

キム, チョンミ

Kim, Chongmi

花崎, 皋平

ハナサキ, コウヘイ

Hanasaki, Kohei

髙橋, 舞

タカハシ, マイ

Takahashi, Mai

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ キョウイクガクケイ

Department of Education, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

When the memories of others take deep roots in the mind and take control of one’s ways of life and behaviors, we call this “inheritance of the memories of others.” How do we inherit memories from people who have experienced wars, discrimination, and disasters and then use them as ‘knowledge for co-existence’ to get along with others? Is it possible for us to inherit memories from deceased individuals whom we have neither met nor talked with? This paper aims to report the research presentations from the Round Table session at the 61st annual conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Japan, held on October 7, 2018. Four presenters have all addressed the inheritance of memories from others, including leprosy patients, the people of Ainu, former comfort women, the people of Okinawa, people who have experienced serious disasters, and others. One message from their presentations and discussions is that it is necessary for successors to reflect on their own harmfulness, to encounter someone who could mediate between experiencers and successors, and to imagine ‘Gen-kyo’ ―Gen-kyo is described as an alien spirit-world of excess where all lives and things generated themselves but existed in a nameless and formless state, swirling in chaos ―in order to inherit the memories of others and to co-exist with them.

金, 正美

花崎, 皋平

髙橋, 舞