Issues of the Legitimacy of Value-Oriented Instruction in the Postmodern Age

Abstract

The text deals with a reasoning for the legitimacy of instruction towards values in times of postmodern relativism in the context of axiology, ethics, psychology and education.

Keywords

• Instruction towards values
• postmodern age
• concept of values
• openness of being
• culture
• identity
• value horizon
• socialization
• self-transcending
• will to meaning
• ethics of obligation
• globalization
• education
• moral thinking
• formation of values