Systematization in Modern Ethics: Theoretical Approaches, Methods, and Schemes. Proceedings of round table discussion
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21146/2074-4870-2017-17-2-5-45Keywords:
Ethics (general, normative, applied), morality, history of Ethics, Ethics education, systematization of knowledge, Philosophy and Ethics, case-studyAbstract
A round table on systematization of Ethics knowledge in scholarship and education was held following a discussion in the Department of Ethics (Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences) of a draft text-book, Ethics, by Ruben Apressyan, who had suggested an innovative approach to presentation of Ethics in higher education. The discussion in the Department of Ethics allowed to propose the following questions for the round table conversation: general principles of structuring Ethics curriculum, criteria of selection the most relevant for education philosophical and normative topics, implementation of historical-philosophical heritage and the results of current discussions in teaching Ethics, reasonable correlation between general and applied ethics, incorporation Ethics topics in teaching social sciences and humanities, the relevance of Ethics curriculum to today state of art in Russian higher education. Discussants (representing different Russian universities as well as Belarus and Ukraine ones) shared their experience in teaching Ethics and developing text-books in Ethics in universities and secondary school as well. The round table discussion reflected a broad variety of theoretical approaches and methodological attitudes in the present regional Ethics discourse and show the discussed issue as applicable mainly to the tasks of teaching Ethics rather than to theoretical scholarship in moral philosophy and applied consideration.