Education for active goodness

• Main Author: Vacek Pavel
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2016-06-01
• Series: Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe)
• Subjects: freedom; moral complexity; moral education; individual and social ethics; meta-ethics; active goodness
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/ebce-2016-0006

The present paper focuses on the interconnection and the impact of broader social events responsible for shaping the character of the young in the context of developments in both post-communist countries and the European Union as a whole. The attention of the paper is devoted to the changing perceptions of liberty in relation to a high standard of living in European countries and the need to promote moral education comprehensively, with regard to having a balanced impact on the development of moral knowing and moral feeling. Further, the paper offers an analysis of dimensions that determine moral actions and character accents, considered to be essential to convey in order to encourage the moral development of pupils. Finally, the paper ends with a presentation of the conditions that should help the ethical development of active goodness in the young generation.