EDUCATION OF MORAL COMPETENCE
EDUCATION OF MORAL COMPETENCE

Summary/Abstract: People are dependent on education and certainly they are morally educable. We ask ourselves if we become moral as a result of education, we are born with this virtue, or morality appear due to the environment in which we develop... The genes or development environment do not lay the emphasis on the development of moral competence and the biological age does not reveal a higher or lower level of morality. The opportunities that are offered by the education to individuals promote a harmonious development of moral competence. That is why the researchers focus on the evolution of new theories that help to develop moral competence without neglecting the educational institutions that have a fundamental role in educating the humans. Moral competence emphasizes the individual's ability to be able to solve problems, to discuss and to listen on the basis of his inner principles. From the perspective of the development of moral competence, the individual becomes more earned, his behavior becomes more ennobled because of his elevating inner principles, and this is exclusively due to education. It is remarkable the fact that moral capacities are generally regarded as more valuable than intellectual ones, so that the future can be viewed from a perspective of the development of an education that focus on the development of moral competence, rather than on the development of intellectual capacities.

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