Moral education: a dialogue of thinkers as a way to understand the truth
The article presents ideas about the moral education of the individual as a dialogue of outstanding thinkers - philosophers and teachers - a dialogue that continues for many centuries and in which you can find the answer - what should be a well-educated person. This is, first of all, a moral person. The reference point is known: the moral characteristic of a person is an objective value of a person, and the criterion of moral education of a person is activity. In the views of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, I. Kant, G. Hegel, N. A. Berdyaev, J.-P Sartre, A. Camus and other outstanding philosophers, a moral person is a person who has the virtues - wisdom, generosity, courage, sociability. Modern philosophers (Anisimov S. F., Apresyan R. G., Huseynov A. A., Zdravomyslov A. G., Kagan M. S., Sagatovsky V. N., Stolovich L. N., etc.) suggest paying attention to the development of human kindness, conscience, duty, responsibility, freedom, etc. Outstanding representatives of pedagogical science, such as J. A. Comenius, John Locke, J. J. Russo, I. G. Pestalozzi, I. F. Herbart, K. D. Ushinsky, L. N. Tolstoy, A. S. Makarenko, V. A. Sukhomlinsky presented unique models of moral education of children and youth. Modern education requires an innovative view of the educational process, it is important to find the national pedagogical code of spiritual and moral education in Russia.