PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hábl, Jan
AU  - Polinský, Jan
TI  - Issue of the Method of Moral Dilemmas in Ethics Education
DP  - 2017 Feb 1
TA  - e-Pedagogium
PG  - 35--45
VI  - 17
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/epd.2017.004
IS  - 12137758
AB  - The objective of this paper is to answer the question of whether the method of so-called moral dilemmas is a suitable tool for Ethic Education lessons. The work will introduce the fundamental ideological concept of two figures of moral psychology, Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg. It will be followed by the methods of moral dilemmas efficacy and applicability of which in lessons will be tested. Moral development of an individual is influenceable through pedagogy in school environment. Moral dilemmas are an efficient tool in ethics education but only for individuals who have reached a certain level of moral development.