Valores éticos e morais atemporais: formação do cidadão contemporâneo

Abstract

This dissertation begins with research on the importance of ideas and timeless ethical and moral values proposed by classical antiquity, through classic works such as Paideia (System of Education and Ethical Training of Ancient Greece), writings by Plato, Aristotle directed to ethical training and morality of man, which allows the expression of citizenship, contrasting it with the historical moment of the current world, where the absence of human values is striking. The second chapter inquires about the formation of the individual, deals with the characteristics of individualism; comparing and differentiating the individual being from the individualistic being. Furthermore, it discusses the ways of knowing: reason and imagination, as human tools to be used to understand what moves man to carry out social life. Finally, the third chapter deals with citizen training in the classic way, which goes beyond theoretical instruction, to teach about the application of essential human values, with a practical and current sense, capable of bringing answers to everyday questions, so that it can be expanded. horizons and finding keys to self-knowledge and to better experience life in society, through the power of culture transmission, through myths; as well as investigating sacred rites and symbols, highlighting their structuring presence and timeless character for the formation of ethical political citizens