MORAL EDUCATION AND VIRTUE ETHICS - AN OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORK
MORAL EDUCATION AND VIRTUE ETHICS - AN OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORK

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, modern societies are more than ever confronted with vicissitudes of moral interrogation. Despite the general consensus regarding the aims of a good society, perfectly framed by Karl Popper metaphor upon openness, the presence of significant number of adumbrated or declining democratic societies call for reflection. Moral education could represent the path to overpass present cultural and social cleavages, contributing also to the renegotiations of new societal equilibriums. Present article aims to offer an operational framework upon the condition of existence and possibility of moral education, seen as a formative tool of future citizens. The research revolves around two key hypotheses. The first proposes moral education as a tool for recreating new social and moral pacts, while the second offers virtue ethics as a normative equation for reconstructing the educational curriculum of young citizens.

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