Virtue and Dialog centered Moral Education. Philosophical references WNP-PE-SL-ER

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The content of lectures and reading and interpreting text seminars will cover the following topics:
1. Aristotle: What is the goal of life? Virtue character. (2h)
2. Aristotle: Friendship. Moral Friendship as a goal of education. (2h)
3. Martin Buber: Character education. Normative one is not enough. (2h)
4. Hannah Arend: The crisis of our age and what they tell us about the nature of education (2h)
5. Emmanuel Levinas: The primacy of ethics over ontology; the other as a "first". (2h)
6. Emmanuel Mounier: Relational being of man. Dimensions of life and challenges for human character. (2h)
7. Jacques Maritain: In the end again: the goal of life and education. What mistakes do we make? What does this mean for us? (3h)

Term 2021/22_L:

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Course schedule
Week Topic Readings
1st week
(2 hrs)
7/3/2022
9.45-11.15 Introduction.
Aristotle: What is the goal of life? Virtue character. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics. Translated, with Introduction, Notes and Glossary, by Terence Irwin. Second edition. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 1999. E-book available on internet: https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/PHS433/Nicomachean%20Ethics.pdf
Especially chapters (books) I and II.
2nd week
(2 hrs)
14/3/2022
9.45-11.15 Aristotle: Friendship. Moral Friendship as a goal of education. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics. Translated, with Introduction, Notes and Glossary, by Terence Irwin. Second edition. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 1999. E-book available on internet: https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/PHS433/Nicomachean%20Ethics.pdf
Especially chapters (books) VIII and IX.
3rd week
(2 hrs)
21/3/2022
9.45-11.15 Martin Buber: Character education. Normative one is not enough. Buber, Martin: Between Man and Man. London – New York: Routledge Classics, 2002. Chapters 3. and 4. E-book available on internet: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/10616720/buber-between-man-and-man-in-bbpdf-polkfolk
Optional: Buber, Martin: I and Thou. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1937. E-book available on internet: http://www.maximusveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/iandthou.pdf
4th week
(2 hrs)
28/3/2022
9.45-11.15 Hannah Arend: The crisis of our age and what they tell us about the nature of education Arendt, Hannah: Between Past and Future. New York: Viking Press, 1961. Chapters 5. and 6. E-book available on internet: https://pensarelespaciopublico.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/hannah-arendt-between-past-and-future.pdf
5th week
(2 hrs)
4/4/2022
9.45-11.15

Emmanuel Levinas: The primacy of ethics over ontology; the other as a "first".
Levinas, Emmanuel: Totality and Infinity. An Essey on Exteriority. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2007. Section III. E-book available on internet: https://www.academia.edu/44228291/Totality_and_Infinity_An_Essay_on_Exteriority_Emmanuel_Levinas
Optional: Rajský, Andrej – Wiesenganger, Marek: Moral Virtue and the Other In: Rajský, Andrej – Wiesenganger, Marek (eds.): Relationality in Education of Morality. Berlín : Peter Lang, 2021. - ISBN 978-3-631-85264-4. - pp. 15-34.
Rajský, Andrej: Love as absolute challenge - also for education In: Kultura i Wychowanie. - ISSN 2083-2923. - Vol. 16, nr. 2 (2019), pp. 89-98 [online:] https://pedagogika.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/KiW_16_e_book.pdf
6th week
(2 hrs)
11/4/2022
9.45-11.15
Emmanuel Mounier: Relational being of man. Dimensions of life and challenges for human character. Mounier, Emmanuel: Personalism. Translated by Philip Mairet. London: Routledge and Kegan paul Ltd, 1962. E-book available on internet: https://archive.org/details/personalism031987mbp
7th week
(2 hrs)
25/4/2022
9.45-11.15
(1 hr)
11.15-12.00

Jacques Maritain: In the end again: the goal of life and education. What mistakes do we make? What does this mean for us?

The end of the course, discussion of the final evaluation Maritain, Jacques: Education at the Crossroads. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1943, pp. 1-38.
Optional:
Rajský, Andrej: What’s Wrong in Modern Education? Maritain’s Warning is Valid Today More than Ever In: Caritas et veritas [online] - ISSN 1805-0948. - Roč. 8, č. 2 (2018), pp. 59-77 [online:] https://www.caritasetveritas.cz/artkey/cev-201802-0008_what-s-wrong-in-modern-education-maritain-s-warning-is-valid-today-more-than-ever.php
Maritain, Jacques: The Education of Man. The Educational Philosophy of Jacques Maritain. Edited, and with an Introduction, by Donald and Idella Gallagher. New York: Doubleday and Co. Inc, 1962. E-book available on internet: Library Genesis: Jacques Maritain - Education of Man (libgen.is).

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Subject level

elementary

Learning outcome code/codes

NP2_W12, NP2_W14, NP2_U03, NP2_U10, NP2_K01

Type of subject

obligatory

Preliminary Requirements

Preliminary requirements associated with the subject: Student has basic knowledge from philosophy, especially from moral philosophy and ethics; is able to make use of main theoretical expressions describing moral literacy and educational competencies.

Course coordinators

Andrej Rajský

Learning outcomes

KNOWLEDGE:
- Student receives knowledge on human morality and ethical education, especially in terms of interpreting classical european philosophical texts with view to the possibilities of their pedagogical application;
- Student has well arranged knowledge about the position of goals, meanings and processes of moral education, especially in the context of public school education;
SKILLS:
- Student has abilities to search, name and register ethical concepts and solutions of moral-educational problems within classical texts;
- Student is able to cooperate with others, work in a team, update and exchange professional and educational information;
COMPETENCIES:
- Student realizes the need for continuing personal and professional development within his/her specialization and building the cooperative research community.
ECTS [1 ECTS = 25 (30)h]:
- participation in classes - 15h
- preparation for classes - 25h
- preparing the paper - 20h
ECTS: 2

Assessment criteria

Course requirements
Completion of one paper (essay) which will be tree to five pages in length (excluding references), typed one and half-spaced. Paper requires the student to take ideas from the readings, lectures, presentations and discussions for the chosen problem with application the theoretical solutions to short educational intervention of moral education – which will be virtue and dialogue centered. Papers must be an application of ideas rather than simply a regurgitation of class materials.
Active participation during online lectures.
Final score:
60-67 p. - 3,0
68-75 p. - 3,5
76-83 p. - 4,0
84-91 p. - 4,5
92-100 p.-5,0

Bibliography

1. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics. Translated, with Introduction, Notes and Glossary, by Terence Irwin. Second edition. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 1999. E-book available on internet: https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/PHS433/Nicomachean%20Ethics.pdf
2. Buber, Martin: Between Man and Man. London – New York: Routledge Classics, 2002. Chapters 3. and 4. E-book available on internet: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/10616720/buber-between-man-and-man-in-bbpdf-polkfolk
3. Arendt, Hannah: Between Past and Future. New York: Viking Press, 1961. Chapters 5. and 6. E-book available on internet: https://pensarelespaciopublico.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/hannah-arendt-between-past-and-future.pdf
4. Levinas, Emmanuel: Totality and Infinity. An Essey on Exteriority. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2007. Section III. E-book available on internet: https://www.academia.edu/44228291/Totality_and_Infinity_An_Essay_on_Exteriority_Emmanuel_Levinas
5. Mounier, Emmanuel: Personalism. Translated by Philip Mairet. London: Routledge and Kegan paul Ltd, 1962. E-book available on internet: https://archive.org/details/personalism031987mbp
6. Maritain, Jacques: Education at the Crossroads. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1943, pp. 1-38.
Additional literature:
1. Rajský, Andrej – Wiesenganger, Marek: Moral Virtue and the Other In: Rajský, Andrej – Wiesenganger, Marek (eds.): Relationality in Education of Morality. Berlín : Peter Lang, 2021. - ISBN 978-3-631-85264-4. - pp. 15-34.
2. Rajský, Andrej: Love as absolute challenge - also for education In: Kultura i Wychowanie. - ISSN 2083-2923. - Vol. 16, nr. 2 (2019), pp. 89-98 [online:] https://pedagogika.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/KiW_16_e_book.pdf
3. Rajský, Andrej: Toward a philosophy of moral education In: Forum Pedagogiczne. - ISSN 2083-6325. - Vol. 2016, no. 2/1 (2016), pp. 281-291. [online:] http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-c796e84d-f639-4dac-8a0d-9185ad3a9c60
4. Rajský, Andrej: The Secret of Youth against nihilism of the youth according to Umberto Galimberti In: Konteksty Pedagogiczne = Pedagogical Contexts. - ISSN 2300-6471. - Vol. 9, č. 2 (2017), pp. 115-126. [online:] http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.ojs-doi-10_19265_KP_2017_029115
5. Rajský, Andrej: What’s Wrong in Modern Education? Maritain’s Warning is Valid Today More than Ever In: Caritas et veritas [online] - ISSN 1805-0948. - Roč. 8, č. 2 (2018), pp. 59-77 [online:] https://www.caritasetveritas.cz/artkey/cev-201802-0008_what-s-wrong-in-modern-education-maritain-s-warning-is-valid-today-more-than-ever.php
6. Rajský, Andrej: Ethics of Three Persons and Transcendence In: Spirituality Studies. - ISSN 1339-9578. - Vol. 5, no. 2 (2019), pp. 12-23. [online:] https://www.spirituality-studies.org/volume5-issue2-fall2019/
7. Buber, Martin: I and Thou. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1937. E-book available on internet:
http://www.maximusveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/iandthou.pdf
8. Maritain, Jacques: The Education of Man. The Educational Philosophy of Jacques Maritain. Edited, and with an Introduction, by Donald and Idella Gallagher. New York: Doubleday and Co. Inc, 1962. E-book available on internet: Library Genesis: Jacques Maritain - Education of Man (libgen.is).
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