Ethical competences for democratic citizenship at school, university and family

Abstract

We live in a pluralistic world, in a democratic society, where different ways of seeing and coping with life coexist. The evolution of society is complex and uncertain, and people must face great challenges, confusion and disorientation that do not help them to find their way forward in life. Moreover, the multiculturalism of our societies, especially the most advanced ones, requires learning how to live together. It is not only living side by side during a specific stage of life, with individuals of different characters, intellectual levels, ethnicity or religion. We will have to set in childhood and youth the fundamentals of this coexistence so that these persist into adulthood.