Perfectibilidade e educação moral no Emílio de Rousseau : uma conexão necessária

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Reis, Lia Presgrave
• Orientador(a): Santos, Edmilson Menezes
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Sergipe
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Educação
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Educação; Educação moral; Infância; Educação na infância; Perfectibilidade; Emílio; Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Moral education; Childhood; Emile; Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/4751

Based on the novel Emile, or On Education, the research problem concerning this dissertation demonstrates the necessity for a moral education in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's pedagogy. For this purpose, we prepared the following hypothesis: if human entry into civilization is responsible for the moral degradation of humanity, then a moral education is required. Given the above, it remains, therefore, to examine under what circumstances a moral education project appears at Rousseau's work, that is to say, how this is justified by the philosopher or how it is possible to extract evidence of a moral education in his philosophical project. And, if this assumption is confirmed, we intend to reveal the conditions of possibility for the realization of this goal, since moral education is intrinsic to the act of educating. To this end, given the hypothesis, the research supports the concept of morality relevant to moral education in Rousseau's pedagogy, and attempts to demonstrate the relevance of the resumption of his thought to understand the relationship between education and morality according to the concept of human perfectibility. We also intend to comprehend – especially by Emile's analysis and by other works of the philosopher such as A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences (Discours sur les sciences et les arts), Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men (Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes) and Julie, or the New Heloise (Julie or La Nouvelle Héloïse) – how Rousseau laid the foundations for a moral education; investigate the birth of moral consciousness in individuals and how education is linked to moral actions. In addition, we seek to demonstrate how perfectibility may contribute to the formation of the individual, and how education, based on moral principles, can contribute to human improvement through the connection between nature, conscience and freedom.