The course will take place at different times:
- Definition of social service and importance of ethical reflection for the profession.
- Ethical aspects in social service and its values.
- Main currents of ethical thought of reference.
- Ethics in scientific theories.
- Professional codes of conduct, function and meaning.
- The Italian code of ethics.
- User rights and consumerism.
- Managerialism and role duties.
- Ethical problems and dilemmas.
- Spaemann: Three lessons on human dignity:
Uniqueness of the human being. The dignity of a person. The "dignity" of a death. Modernity and its disagreement with religious and moral tradition. Dignity as a non-biological quality of man, but as a foundation. Love as the foundation of knowledge.