通識教育的邏輯診斷－－三個「訴諸」謬誤及法利賽主義

A Logical Diagnosis of General Education in Taiwan-Three Ad-Fallacies and a Prevailing Pharisaism

大學引以為傲的是：它能透過嚴格的學術方法獲致紮實的知識。然而，在通識教育的施行過程中，我們發現大多數的通識措施並沒有任何理論根據。藉由指出與當前的通識教育牽扯不清的三個明顯謬誤：訴諸群眾、訴諸權威、訴諸武力，以及各大學普遍瀰漫的法利賽主義，我嘗試傳遞以下呼籲：通識教育的理論與施行亟需我們投入更多嚴謹的學術研究。

The university takes pride in generating hard-earned knowledge through rigorous academic means. However, when it comes to the implementation of general education, we find that the university is happy to live without any well-established theory for the practice of it. In this paper, by outlining three logical fallacies, namely ”ad populum” (appeal to people), ”ad verecudiam” (appeal to authority), and ”ad baculum” (appeal to force) associated with today's general education in Taiwan, and a prevailing Pharisaism at nearly all universities around the world, I try to convey to the reader the urgent need of a solid academic research on the theory and practice of general education.