Moral (or ethical) education in Slovakia and its theoretical basis

• Authors: Vasil Gluchman
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

With regard to existing concept of the moral education (ethics) in Slovakia, the questions of ethics and morals are only one of the partial sections. The dominant role is played by psychology based on Roberto Olivar’s concept with emphasis on pro-socialization and on Erickson’s concept of the psychosocial development. From the philosophy basis point of view, only Aristotle, even in reduced form and Spranger’s concept of the life forms are mentioned. Philosophy and ethics are only complements to more psychologically based educational program which is resulting from the problematic division of a social and moral experience into egoistic and prosocial. Egoism is presented in a distorted form and is characterized as the cause of all moral evil. However, there are several different types of understanding of the term egoism in philosophy and ethics as for example psychological and ethical egoism, or self-interest. Ethical egoism or self-interest cannot be identified with selfishness. The main aim of moral education should not be only to form the desired children and youth moral orientation but on the other hand, to form morally self-confident individuals who are able to solve the moral problems, to help the others to solve them as well and to be able to bear moral responsibility for their own deeds.

Keywords

EN

moral education; ethical education; pro-social behaviour; Slovakia; Olivar; Spranger

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Ethics & Bioethics
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 79-89

Dates

published

2016-06-01

online

2016-06-24

Contributors

author

Vasil Gluchman

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

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ebce-2016-0010