The Teaching of Philosophy and Responsibility

Abstract

This work is a qualitative bibliographic research on the new ethical proposal of Hans Jonas in his fundamental book The Principle of Responsibility: an essay on an ethics for technological civilization (2006) in what implies an ethics of responsibility thought as a proposal for the teaching of Philosophy in the classroom. It aims to investigate the ethics of responsibility in Philosophy, in its teaching and as a proposal for teaching and student practice. It is made a presentation of the moral and proposed aspects found in the work The Principle of Responsibility: an essay on an ethics for technological civilization (2006), although it does not dwell strictly or in detail on education or specifically on the teaching of Philosophy, Hans Jonas offers elements that contemplate the dimensions of education and the teaching of Philosophy, and with regard to his criticism of technology, modernity; Michel Serres with the work The Bad Clean: Polluting to Appropriate? (2011); Sílvio Gallo (2013) with the book Methodology of teaching philosophy: A didactic for high school (2013), notes by the author on the methodological practice of teaching Philosophy. It is inferred that from the reflections related to the Jonasian ethical theory, it serves as a foundation for the approach of the ethics of responsibility in the classroom and its pertinence in the practice of teaching Philosophy.