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Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Criticism of Amoral Sex Education
Tapio Puolimatkasubject
Subjectivity050103 clinical psychologyAmoral sex educationmedia_common.quotation_subjectHuman sexuality0603 philosophy ethics and religionSex educationlcsh:Education (General)EducationMoral agency0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesSociologyObjectivity (science)media_commonmoral transcendencemorality intrinsic to sexuality05 social sciences06 humanities and the artsEpistemologyCritical thinkingmoraalisukupuolimoraaliseksuaalikasvatus060302 philosophyCriticismmoral agencylcsh:L7-991Autonomyamoral sex educationdescription
This article analyzes Dietrich von Hildebrand’s criticism of amoral sex education, which he regards as misleading and anti-educational in many crucial respects. Its content is misleading, because it separates human sexuality from its inherent connection with married love and thereby fails to do justice to the personal and intimate nature of sexuality. Its reductive and neutralizing approach not only fails to develop young people’s capacity for the transcendence implicit in moral agency, it also fails to provide the preconditions for the development of their authe-antic subjectivity. Instead of fostering objectivity, critical thinking and autonomy, amoral sex education promotes a normatively closed educational environment that fails to unfold young people’s potential for value-response and to contribute to the fulfilling of their human potential in general. peerReviewed
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-01 |