ETHICAL vs MILITARY-PATRIOTIC

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Interestingly, the most famous German magazines and newspapers, as well as public broadcasting, often offer teachers material for teaching lessons, for example, on the subject of ethics/philosophy. As an example, I point to the website of the Bavarian radio, which hosts a series of programs on the topic “radioWissen” (radio knowledge). For example, Bavarian radio prepared material in digital audio format on the topic “On the possibility of ending all wars: concepts of peace in philosophy”: https://br.de/s/QUkGF2

After listening to this audio material, students should record in writing a variety of philosophical positions in relation to the concepts of peace and war from Epicurus to Kant. At the end of this independent work, you can organize a discussion about the problems of peace/war, certainly linking it with the current tragic events of the Ukrainian war.After all, ethics and philosophy must respond to the pressing issues of today and must remain relevant. On this important issue, we must not hand over the initiative to the “traditionalists” (Putinism). I mean supporters of “traditional values”, for whom the seizure of foreign territories, bombs on residential buildings, torture and cowardly murders of oppositionists are the most “ethical” and most “moral” actions. NO! The diabolical must remain diabolical, the divine must remain divine. Mixing is unacceptable here. Children should already understand this.