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25.051 - Applied Moral Problems in Globalized Current Societies

Fri, April 28, 8:15 to 10:15am, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Floor: River Level, Room 6B

Session Type: Symposium

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This session aims at providing theoretical concepts and empirical facets on acute social problems that (1) are in itself a societal burden, and (2) must be morally framed in educational settings. The different presentations refer to issues like tolerance and its limits, cyber-mobbing and its personal hurting, teachers not able to provide students with the capacity to elicit pro-social character, war victims’ negative emotions when judging the fairness of retributive and restorative punishments, and students seeing not only schoolmates but also teachers as aggressive and harassing. We think that morality often is hidden in such societal problems today; in all of these situations morality must become a direct voice, but has obviously different situational frames.

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