Ethical education and transcendental norms of reason. The problem of citizen education

Abstract

This paper contextualizes the question about ethical education from the detranscendentalization of ethical-moral norms-more specifically through the categories of valiception and passivity. We propose the possibility of ethical education based on language pragmatics, capable of avoiding the different types of nihilism, relativism, and totalitarianism. Finally, we revisit the notion of alterity as a regulative idea of ethics. In the introduction, we examine the variants of the problem together with their perspectives of solution. We then proceed in four steps: first, the scope of the title “detranscendentalization” in the context of ethics is explained; second, the link between the ethical training and language pragmatics is shown; third, the mutual implication of truth and reason is addressed; and finally, alterity as an ethical regulative idea for education processes is characterized.