Axiological conditions for child upbringing

Axiological Categories for Designing the System of Technical Education

The article presents a systemic approach to axiological categories in the model creating a coherent and co-existing hierarchy. The proposed solutions constitute a clear indication for seeking criteria of human life quality beyond the categories which are exclusively economic defining only the state of possessing (“having”), pushing the personal – subjective and autonomous development of a human...

Conditions mistaken for child abuse: Part I.

Toward a Purely Axiological Scientific Realism

The axiological tenet of scientific realism, ‘‘science seeks true theories,’’ is generally taken to rest on a corollary epistemological tenet, ‘‘we can justifiably believe that our successful theories achieve (or approximate) that aim.’’ While important debates have centered on, and have led to the refinement of, the epistemological tenet, the axiological tenet has suffered from neglect. I offe...

An Axiological Approach to Virtue Ethics

The resurgence of interest in virtue ethics can be traced to the late 1950s and to the work of Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot. On Anscombe's view, both deontologism and consequentialism are guilty of judging the " rightness " or " wrongness " of actions on the model of rendering a verdict based on one's understanding of the law and of an agent's obligations under the law. The fundamental ...

University, the academic environment of axiological values

The study makes a presentation of universities functions, developed and customized for actual needs of the third millennium, of Information Age. The universities are schools of education, also schools of research. But the primary reason for their existence is not to be found either in the mere knowledge conveyed to the students or in the mere opportunities for research afforded to the members o...