Journal for Christian reflections in the context of social sciences and humanities

Caritas et veritas, 2012 (vol. 2), issue 2

Editorial

Editorial

Michal Opatrný

Caritas et veritas 2012, 2(2):4  

Interview

Etická výchova "Dobro se nedá nacvičit, mladého člověka je potřeba pro něj získat..."

Kateřina Brichcínová

Caritas et veritas 2012, 2(2):6-10  

Studies

When "Moral Education" may not be ethical education

Jindřich Šrajer

Caritas et veritas 2012, 2(2):12-19 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2012.013  

This article deals with the questions if the subject "ethical education" (subject, which The Ministry od Education, Youth and Sports included in the Framework Education Programme as a new additional field) is really an ethical education? And whether "ethical education" can be justified in the context of school education? The article critically evaluates the content of this project and its goals. In this context deals with the nature of ethics and the current ethical paradigm. Also specifies a school competence in the area of education and offer concrete solutions to the problem.

Moral Education: Education for Moral Virtues and Moral Argumentation?

Ludmila Muchová

Caritas et veritas 2012, 2(2):20-32 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2012.014  

The author compares the concept of moral education, a complementary educational field in FEP ES (Framework Educational Programme for Elementary Education) represented in the Czech Republic by Ethics Forum, with the Philosophy for Children programme. She points out differences between them lying in the formation and development of children's moral character in the first programme and in fostering the ability to reflect on moral situations and moral decision-making in the second programme. From the comparison, a thesis is drawn about possible methodological combination of the two programmes.

Ethical and Religious Appeal of Unamuno's Quixotism

Helena Zbudilová

Caritas et veritas 2012, 2(2):33-40 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2012.015  

The study deals with the problems of quijotism in the conception of Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936), a Spanish writer and philosopher, as an alternative philosophy of life and Spanish religion with respect to its ethical-religious heritage. Apart from author's philosophical and religious ground, Unamuno's quijotism is put into the historical context of the development of Spanish philosophy including changes of author's personal attitudes to the theme of quijotism with a breakthrough in 1905, when his essay La Vida de don Quijote y Sancho was published. The study contains his interpretation of don Quijote and its immersion in the ethical-philosophical...

Reviews and articles

Dagmar Zezulová: Domov je místo, odkud tě nevyhodí ... ani když vyrosteš

Tomáš Veber

Caritas et veritas 2012, 2(2):42-43