Ethics as a Way out of an Ordinary and Limiting Order of Things

Abstract

Ethics as a Way out of an Ordinary and Limiting Order of Things. – The author reflects upon the current state of ethics education in Czech schools, in the context of curricula used in other countries of the European Union. Pointing to the recommendations of the famous Czech philosopher Jan Patočka (according to which education should lead from the naive and natural to troubling the everyday order of things) she looks for the meaning and purpose of ethics education.