Thinking – judgment – responsilibity. Hannah Arendt’s foundation of moral education

Abstract

Hannah Arendt, in her philosophical work, constantly undertook moral issues, which – in the context of the Holocaust – emerged in the 20th century with an unprecedented force. In spite of this, she did not develop a unified theory of morality. In her analyzes, however, there are numerous elements that can be considered as rudiments of this theory. These elements oscillate around the phenomena of thinking, judgment and responsibility constituting a moral personality. The presented paper considers them as foundations of a hypothetical concept of moral education according to Arendt. Reconstruction of this concept has been embedded in a frame embracing the past and the present of teaching and learning morality at school.

Keywords

• moralność, wychowanie moralne, kształcenie moralne, myślenie pedagogiczne, myślenie edukacyjne