Published: 2017-04-04

Moral sense. Five ethical codes in perception of pupils of the Educational Youth Centres

Karina Szafrańska
Pedagogical Forum
Section: Topic
https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2017.1.07

Abstract

Man has been tackling the question of morality for centuries. It is because man, as a thinking being, has pursued the reasons for his or her behaviour and has wanted to focus his or her existence on the world of standards and moral values. The moral domain, which significantly determines the way people function, is part of broader spirituality. While observing and judging other people’s actions, we concentrate primarily on identifying their goals or intentions (we analyse them in terms of their actions), because it is required by the attribution of their personality traits. It is a definitional component of many traits to pursue specific goals (Wojciszke, Baryła: Read, Jones, Miller, 1990), whereas the basic element of moral judgment is to assign intentions. As a result, we tend to analyse other people’s behaviour in moral terms. Self-efficacy is particularly important for us in terms of effectiveness in our actions, whearas an interest in efficacy of other people shows our need to know if we can benefit or not from their actions (Peeters, Czapiński, 1990).

The article describes the results of a research on the perception of the five ethical codes (ethic of autonomy, ethic of dignity, ethic of community, ethic of common good and ethic of productivity) in pupils of the Youth Educational Centres in Mazovia Province.

Keywords:

morality, education, five ethical codes, Educational Youth Centres

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Szafrańska, K. (2017). Moral sense. Five ethical codes in perception of pupils of the Educational Youth Centres. Pedagogical Forum, 7(1), 77–94. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2017.1.07

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