Formação humanística e ética: notas críticas

Abstract

Nowadays there is a sharp speech about the need to overcome the technical education and its alleged non-human and unethical logic, especially in health area. However, this speech is a mystification of objective reality. Each society has a moral, according to the social relations of production of the epoch, being ethics the study of this moral. In capitalism, the morality seeks profit above all else. After the crisis of the early 1970s, there was criticism that sought the causes of the crisis, however, due to the lack of a theoretical framework that allows understanding the social determinants involved, criticism was directed to education, particularly technical-scientific education. Seeks to overcome this by adhering to the ideals of learning to learn as instructional design, assuming it has the elements that can humanize and make ethical the education. However, both learning to learn and the technical-scientific education are formulations that are not seeking to change the foundation of society, and thus cannot afford to achieve what they aspire. The humanist discourse thus serves as a way to adapt most the individual to capitalist society.