The ethical and pedagogical ideas in the ancient period.

Authors

  • A. Kalenskyi ,

Abstract

The ethical and pedagogical ideas in an ancient times were analyzed by this article. The ethics as the concept appeared and was developed in the ancient period. A special place in the history of ethics takes the doctrine of Socrates. Socrates as the first moralist and educator using the method of self-knowledge concluded that the essence of the human being is morality. Ethics of Socrates may be reduced to the three main theses: a) the welfare is identical to pleasure and happiness b) goodness is identical to knowledge, c) the person knows only that he knows nothing.

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