THE PROBLEM OF BEAUTY AS A PRISM OF GOOD AND ITS
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PROBLEM PIĘKNA JAKO PRYZMATU DOBRA I JEGO IMPLIKACJE PEDAGOGICZNE
THE PROBLEM OF BEAUTY AS A PRISM OF GOOD AND ITS PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

Author(s): Sylwia Jaronowska
Subject(s): Sociology of Education, Pedagogy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: beauty; good; truth; upbringing; culture; transgression;

Summary/Abstract: Introduction: The research issues undertaken in this article concern beauty from perspectiveof the role in which it becomes a prism of good. The presented theoretical analyzes of the di-scussed concepts and phenomena reference was made to the need to use beauty as a prism ofgood in education and upbringing, indicating that the fulfillment of this need is an importantreponse to contemporary educational challenges.Research Aim: The aim of the undertaken analysis is to draw attention to the possibilities ofusing this aspect of the impact of beauty in education, wherein experiencing it becomes anexperience sensitizing to good, triggering a longing for good and beauty, and inspiring to searchfor these values in one’s own life.Evidence-based Facts: The presented analyses, based on references to source literature, referto the ancient interpretation of beauty as a category with ethical, spiritual and aestetic dimen-sions. References were made to the views in which attention is paid to contemporary culturaltendencies that are an expression of references to beauty, references far from its understandingas a value combined with good. Reference was also made to the views of these representatives ofpedagogical thought who attention to the neglect of the value of beauty in modern upbringing.Summary: The presented analyzes are concluded with the conclusion that the educational di-mensions of the impact of beauty as a prism of good should be associated with shaping sensitivity to beauty and awakening the need to implement this value in activities that are an expres-sion of affirmation of the inseparable triad – truth, good and beauty.

  • Issue Year: 42/2023
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 151-166
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish