authors: Nataliіa Anatska, Iryna Kravchenko, Vadim Penyuk
Urgency of the research is due to one of the most dramatic problems of the present - the ability of humanity to survive in an environment where advances in high technology have led to increased mass consumption, overpopulation of the Earth, declining biodiversity, destruction of forest plantations, pollution of large and small rivers. Military action could lead to a global nuclear disaster, so all this and many other issues are increasing the pressure on nature. More than ever before, humanity needs to affirm new values, moral orientations, and, in particular, the formation of environmental education, otherwise, it risks perishing in a global ecological catastrophe.
Target setting. The need to find new value orientations and moral norms for the regulation of society became apparent and the discussion of these issues shifted to the ethics of responsibility as an ethics of the future. The most important are ecological principles, consciously chosen by man as ecological values and ideals, which become the basis of his ecological awareness and beliefs, which later translate into environmentally appropriate behaviour in production activities.
Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. The solution to contemporary problems is difficult to imagine without reference to the ethics of responsibility, and the philosophy of morality. There are publications on this subject by G. Jonas. He creates a material ontological ethics of values where being and its preservation are central. The paradigm of preservation of being is supported by A. Schopenhauer, A. Schweitzer, and T. Meyer. O. Geffe, R. Goldfeld, J. Rau, and others put forward the problems of interaction between ethics and science. Ukrainian philosophers promote principles of responsible politics, and environmental education - V. Gur, A. Yermolenko, S. Samchuk, M. Kiselev, and others. But despite the weighty contribution of philosophers, and questions of ecological knowledge, the ethics of the future of environmental education always need to be addressed.
The research objective. Highlight the need for an ethics of responsibility and its methodological foundations in environmental education. To consider the formation of environmental education based on the ethics of responsibility, influencing the formation of the vital-value orientations of the modern man. To recognize that the future of mankind depends on them exercising solidarity and behaving in an ecologically sensible way to preserve life on our planet.
The statement of basic material. The article discusses the contribution of the core values of the ethics of responsibility as an ethics of the future in shaping environmental education. Environmental education, as part of modern education, is shown to be an important aspect in the formation of environmental consciousness, which means that all education should be environmental, with an ethics of responsibility creating new values for the preservation of human existence in the present and future.
Conclusions. Global environmental problems can only be solved systematically. Different eras have defined environmental knowledge in different ways, so it is necessary to know their philosophical foundations in order to outline their contribution to environmental education. The challenge, therefore, is to give this process a socially humanistic direction, for it is difficult to imagine addressing today's environmental problems without addressing the ethics of responsibility as an ethics of the future.
Keywords: core values, ethics of responsibility, environmental education, environmental knowledge, environmental humanism, environmental crisis, and nature.
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