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[AT230]  Educate for legality or justice? At the frontier of pedagogy, law and ethics

Semester I
friday 14:30 - 16:15

Course Information

Professor: SESSA, Dario
Email: [email protected]
Language: English

ECTS: 3
Schedule:
Semester I
friday 14:30 - 16:15

Content

The problem: educating to justice or legality? – The terms of the problem: a) education (education/training, value horizon and wholeness dimension); b) “justice” and “legality”” – Education, justice and legality in the “liquid society” – The cultural context and the “dictatorship of relativism”- Ethical reflexes: substantial morality and formal morality – The Thomist contribution: the natural law in S. Thomas – The concept of “objective moral order” and contemporary culture – Actuality of natural law in a genuinely Thomist sense – Education and “power”: the risks of formal legality – Concrete paths of education to justice.

Bibliography

SESSA D., Saggi di filosofia dell’educazione. Il munus educandi nella prospettiva dell’integralità, PassionEducativa, Benevento 2020; SESSA D., L’azione educativa, PassionEducativa, Benevento 2018. Materiale didattico ed ulteriori indicazioni bibliografiche saranno forniti dal docente nel corso delle lezioni.