Moral education and moral consumption

• Authors: Ján Kalajtzidis
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The main aim of the presented paper is to suggest a new possible approach in moral education in Slovakia. The starting point for the presented argumentation is the position that moral education (ethics education) in Slovakia is based on insufficient foundations. One of the possible propositions of how to overcome this shortcoming is to supersede prosocial behavior (insufficient base) with value education and promotion of the development of critical and analytical moral thinking. The paper suggests that one of the possible ways how to achieve this goal is by the help of introducing the issue of moral (ethical) consumption as a topic of moral education.

Keywords

EN

moral education; moral consumption; value education; analytical moral thinking

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Ethics & Bioethics
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 39-44

Dates

published

2016-06-01

online

2016-06-24

Contributors

author

Ján Kalajtzidis

• Institute of Ethics and Bioethics, University of Prešov, 17. Novembra 1, SK- 08078 Prešov (Slovakia)

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ebce-2016-0004