The Role and the Meaning of Antique Ethical Thought in Social Work
The Role and the Meaning of Antique Ethical Thought in Social Work

Summary/Abstract: The thesis I present touches the issue of the need of ethics. I understand this need as an essential art of life, the wisdom of an ancient philosophers. The universal program proposed by Socrates, Plato, Epicureans and Stoics can become, if applied to social work, a good moral basis of it. Social work: an area that implements values in the process of helping, is in need of well grounded axiology and good reasoning. There is no greater proposal of conjoining these two spheres: the reason and the morality than in ancient philosophy. Spiritual exercises, which I would also call a good school of rational reasoning, implicates self-development and leads to entailing man with values. Obviously, it is not every demand of ancient philosophers that can be useful in contemporary world, but the core message is legitimate. The philosophical exercises, that the ancient used to live by, is a timeless program which gives a chance of effective and appropriate actions in social work practice, due to concerning man as a value.

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