Published: 2020-01-16

Rectitude and the Related Virtues. Revival of Essential Virtues in the Process of Moral Education

Alicja Żywczok
Pedagogical Forum
Section: Articles and essays
https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2019.2.29

Abstract

Rectitude, being a crucial category of deontology and arethology, is relatively rarely studied by representatives of sciences, such as pedagogy. The author approaches selected issues within a wider scope of research concerning human rectitude. This paper aims to answer the following questions: what kind of moral values and what particular virtues rectitude is associated with, and how, through a process of moral education can teachers, educators and care-takers shape in their students or subordinates such trait (and moral attitude) as rectitude? Referring to the current state of knowledge the author emphasizes the significance of interdisciplinary category of rectitude in the pedagogical thinking, and presents both traits in the scientific context of collective virtue, disposition (trait) and moral attitude. The author also analyses the relationships between rectitude and other moral values or virtues. The hermeneutical methods applied in this research proved especially useful in view of the comparative character of the study.

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Żywczok, A. . (2020). Rectitude and the Related Virtues. Revival of Essential Virtues in the Process of Moral Education. Pedagogical Forum, 9(2/2), 77–91. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2019.2.29

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