Review article
J. A. Komensky's educational values and guidelines for the third millennium
Ante Vukasović
orcid.org/0000-0002-7606-2721
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Scientific and technological advancement is no guarantee for a better world. The twentieth century was an era of great scientific achievement but at the same time of crushing defeat with respect to the fulfillment of moralities. Scientistic one-sidedness, the utilitarian and hedonistic approaches to life, and the totality of the tragic consequences of a morally unsound society raise the issue of humaneness as the fundamental and most pressing issue in life.
Humanity is in need of a return to ethics, universal human values and child-rearing as a factor in personality development and betterment of our future. The author of this paper has found the magnificent project by Jan Amos Komensky entitled, "A Universal Dissertation on the Improvement of Human Issues", which is also future-oriented, to be teeming with incentive.
The author would like to single out the following: the teleological approach, the axiological approach, the unity of cognitive and value-related components of life, integral child-rearing and education: all are in the function of humanization and must be incorporated into the process of a universally human improvement of the future - these are permanent values and also unavoidable guidelines for the universal "improvement of human issues" in the 21st century and the third millenium.
Keywords
child-rearing and education; values; ethicality; personality; betterment of the future
Hrčak ID:
1187
URI
Publication date:
3.3.2003.
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