Problems of human’s Christian-moral improvement in the ethics courses of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’s leaders of the first half of the 18th century.

Abstract

The article deals with socio-political events of the 17th-18th century, which made it possible to create a fertile ground for understanding the need for change in the perception of the world in the sphere of the practical transformation of being, the individual’s relation to the human values, life and death. The author has made an attempt to research the problems of Christian-moral improvement in the ethics courses of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’s leaders of the first half of the 18th century. The article highlights the key features of pedagogical ideal, presented by the ethics courses teachers of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. The author emphasizes that the main problem, raised in the ethics course of the first half of the 18th century, is the search of the common welfare, human’s happiness in earthly life.

Key words:

welfare; ethics courses; Kyiv-Mohyla Academy; moral philosophy; Christian ethics.