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This paper examines in detail the distinctive features of Kierkegaard’s notion of subjectivity in an attempt to find a new theoretical formulation of moral education; that is, a self-regarding—as opposed to an other-regarding—ethics of moral education. Heavily relying upon an existentialist line of ethical questioning, my aspiration underlying this investigation is not presumptuous in claiming that the self-regarding approach to moral education can—or should—compensate the other-regarding one. For it reveals an ethically non-trivial aspect of human subjectivity which has been overlooked by dominant approaches to moral education, like the moral reasoning and care-ethics models, in such a way as to suggest a way of diagnosing the moral predicament in the contemporary (Korean) society.
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Kwak, DJ. A new formulation of the ethical self through kierkegaard’s notion of subjectivity: in search of a new moral education. Asia Pacific Educ. Rev. 2, 3–9 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03024927
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