Volume 37, 2008
Philosophy of Education
Marta Gluchmanova
Pages 67-75
Non-utilitarian Consequentialism and its Application in the Ethics of Teaching
This paper aims to present of the ethics of social consequences (a form of non-utilitarian consequentialism) as a theoretical basis for the examination of teacher ethics and a tool for dealing with practical moral problems of the teaching profession. Teachers’ duty is to help students, teach them to recognize the difference between good and evil, right and wrong, show them that they have moral responsibility for their actions and all this can be very well attained on the basis of the ethics of social consequences.