• The aim of this presentation is to highlight the role of religiously motivated ethics within the field of sustainability didactics. The idea that religion, by proposing claims for knowledge of absolute authorities such as ‘divine beings or supernatural dimensions’, offers capacity for uniting various ethical life-views and positions, is made the object of critical reflections. An alternative position is outlined: religious claims of this kind rather have to be interpreted as democratic iterations, paving the way for constructive agonistic communication inside, as well as outside, classrooms where RE and ethics education are carried out with reference to various dimensions of social sustainability. Such teaching contexts may be apprehended as ‘democratic communities’ where religious justifications for ethical positions that refer to absolute divine or supernatural authorities, could be seen as constructively challenging the borders for mutually respectful communication, and therefore as being important to highlight within ethics education on sustainability. Religious claims for ethical positions can, considered as democratic iterations, be thought to pave the way for a communication of the kind mentioned in pluralistic contexts, and they ought to be highlighted within ethics teaching on sustainability. References to absolute ‘divine’ or ‘supernatural’ authorities may contribute to the development of ethical re-thinking and to dynamic discussions, inspiring and nurturing to all those engaged in the communicative process.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Didaktik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Didactics (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Religionsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Religious Studies (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Etik (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Ethics (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

ethics

sustainability education

religious ethical claims

democratic iterations

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