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Why Moral Education is Motivating by Nature

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Part of the book series: Moral Development and Citizenship Education ((MORA,volume 1))

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Moral education has been a constant in Western thought, a proprium of our history (Jaeger, 1957). Morality is a human condition, an ontological question. It is what makes it possible for us to be able to give value to what happens around us and to what happens to ourselves.

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Bara, F.E., Estrada, M.R.B. (2013). Why Moral Education is Motivating by Nature. In: Handbook of Moral Motivation. Moral Development and Citizenship Education, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-275-4_33

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