UNIVERSAL PEDAGOGICAL VALUES AND THE PROBLEM OF THEIR RECOGNITION (BASED ON THE WORK OF K. S. LEWIS “ MAN IS CANCELED...”)

Abstract

The question of the existence of universal pedagogical values is a cornerstone in pedagogy. The English writer and philosopher C. S. Lewis in his work “Man is canceled...” gives his own version of the justification of these values. He designates them through the concepts of“tao”and opposes the attitudes of transhumanism. Lewis believes that the basic values of education exist independently of modern pedagogical attitudes – they are universal and eternal. These values are a manifestation of the highest moral principles and are the absolute measure of modern pedagogical theories. Christiananthropological pathos K. S. Lewis ‘ idea is to reject transhumanism and to defend traditional values in pedagogy. The appeal to universal pedagogical values enshrined in the traditions of various cultures will allow overcoming the consequences of crisis phenomena in the spiritual and moral sphere of modern society, according to the author of the article.