ETHICS AND AESTHETICS IN PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT Education through art

The event, at the sixth edition, addresses the specific report of ethics and aesthetics and its role in educating and shaping the human personality.
          OBJECTIVES:
 Defining clearer (from different perspectives: philosophical, artistical, psychological, pedagogical, historical, etc.) the two areas, ethics and aesthetics and their specific interaction. Delimitation of a theoretical base that enables cognitive and ethical values to be interpreted as aesthetic values.
 Presentation of multiple arguments supporting the idea that specific report of ethics and aesthetics contributes to shaping the character, influencing self-knowledge and inter-relational behavior. Art reflects moral values but at the same time provide moral education for those who perceive the work of art. The conference addresses a dilemma regarding the three approaches of ethics and aesthetics report: moralism (expressing ethical values directly influence the aesthetic value of creation), autonomism (aesthetic value is independent of ethics) and imoralism (ethical defects confer aesthetic value to the work of art).
 To propose projects on a new direction in education: intervention through art in the educational process, with an important role in shaping the personality of the students. Art brings up human values, ethical or non-ethical, moral or immoral, enriches subjective experiences, and raise awareness of differences between beneficial and destructive, between acceptable or moderate immorality and the unacceptable one. Ethics and aesthetics possess relevant merits and that’s why contributes directly to emotional diversification, to empathy and sensitivity development. Art refreshes our perceptive register, reveals what is essential, exemplary or expressive in the world and life, having a major educational role.
 Analysis of contextualist interpretations of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, reaching at a more accurate understanding of how the historical context reflects on moral or immoral value of many artistic creations. Analysis of the interactions that exist between socio-psychosocial values in society but also in art and aesthetics. Definition of moral beauty.
 The discussion of new research themes concerning the report ethics and aesthetics, understood as a dynamic source of personal modeling and development. This will facilitate a new educational approach, interdisciplinary, where ethical values, accompany, define and give meaning to artistic creations.
Are invited to participate teachers and researchers, psychologists, psychotherapists, and students interested in this topic.The papers will be published in a collective volume with academic recognition. We offer nominal Diploma of participation.
DEADLINES
April 12, 2015 – for sending title and abstract in English (up to 250 words and 3 keywords):
April 19, 2015 - acceptance of papers.
April 25, 2015 – for sending full papers (8 to 10 pages, font Times New Roman - 12, spacing 1.0, format A4, fully justified, margins Normal. Bibliography: author, year, title, editor.)  
We ask participants to comply with the deadlines for submitting materials.
All documents will be sent electronically to the following e-mail:
[email protected]
CONTACT:
Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch - Institute of Economic and Social Research, "Gh. Zane", Str.  
T. Codrescu, nr. 2, cod 700481.
Ph.D. researcher, pr. grd. II, Marinela Rusu
Mobile: 004 0749252992
Conference site:
http://artethics.webs.com/