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The concept of character, and the necessity and direction of character education

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2019, (74), pp.231-253
  • DOI : 10.31310/HUM.074.08
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : August 1, 2019
  • Accepted : August 8, 2019
  • Published : August 31, 2019

Kim Tae Kyung 1

1경희대학교

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ABSTRACT

Even after the Character Education Promotion Act was enacted in 2015, lots of questions about the character education are still raised. It is even more meaningful to argue that it is difficult to even know what the character is. Here, I argue that these questions and arguments all came from the point of view of Duty Ethics, which is the core idea of act-based ethics And it showed that character education is not discerned from existing ethics education if it is understood from the viewpoint of act-based ethics. As a result, character education cannot be explained properly unless it is understood from the viewpoint of virtue ethics. In addition, the necessity and direction of character education can be presented properly from only the viewpoint of virtue ethics.

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