Teaching ethics without confusing questions: illustrated by the example of Schopenhauer's ethics.

Autor/in	Holweger, Matthias
Titel	Teaching ethics without confusing questions: illustrated by the example of Schopenhauer's ethics.
Quelle	In: Journal of didactics of philosophy, 7 (2023) [1], S. 1-17 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2624-540X
DOI	10.46586/JDPh.2023.10811
Schlagwörter	Motivation; Lehren; Fachdidaktik; Ethik; Moral; Philosophie; Schopenhauer, Arthur
Abstract	Like many other philosophical disciplines, ethics is sometimes highly abstract. And many key notions of the discipline are vague, ambiguous or both. Abstractness, vagueness, and ambiguity invite confusion. My objective in this paper is to draw attention to a serious problem that, despite being widespread, has so far remained largely unrecognized: the confusion of different questions in teaching ethics. This confusion occurs, for example, when a philosopher's viewpoint is presented as an answer to one question, but in fact, the philosopher is addressing a different question with that viewpoint. In the first part of this paper, I will present and clarify several ethical questions that are often confused, and point out damaging consequences that the confusion of such questions entails. In the second part, I will demonstrate the confusion of ethical questions by drawing attention to cases of confused teaching of Schopenhauer's ethics. Finally, for those interested, I outline how Schopenhauer's ethics could be taught without confusion.
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main (extern)
Update	2024/1