Ethical paradigms of social work in the Christian teaching of Patristics and Scholastics

Abstract

Contrary to its theological foundations the medieval Christian thought is very abundant in the multitude of ethical paradigms of theoretical-methodological significance for development of ethical philosophy of social work. In the context of that the two basic directions of the Christian teaching: Patristics and Scholastics anticipate significant ethical postulates as the essential code of thoughtfully-practical overviews of the complex human's morality in social work. Moral liberty, free will, moral awareness and consciousness, good, the evil, love, philanthropy, ethical sovereignty, moral responsibility activity on the moral activities plan, moral reconsideration, sin, repentance and pardoning, moral transfiguration and given moral improvement are some of many pattern-setting ideas which this specific cognitive source potentially offers for epistemological elaboration to the social work humanities.

Uprkos svom teološkom fundusu, srednjovekovna hrišćanska misao obiluje mnoštvom etičkih paradigmi od teorijsko-metodološkog značaja za razvoj moralne filozofije socijalnog rada. U tom kontekstu, dva osnovna pravca hrišćanskog učenja: patristika i sholastika, anticipiraju značajne etičke postulate kao esencijalni kod misaono-praktičnog sagledavanja složene kategorije čovekove moralnosti u socijalnom radu. Moralna sloboda, slobodna volja, moralna svest i savest, dobro, zlo, ljubav, čovekoljublje, moralna suverenost, moralna odgovornost, moralno-delatni aktivitet, moralno preispitivanje, greh, kajanje i praštanje, moralni preobražaj i zadato moralno usavršavanje, neki su od mnogih paradigmatičnih pojmova, koje ovaj specifičan saznajni izvor potencijalno nudi u epistemološku razradu humanistici socijalnog rada.