Ethics Education

What is ethics education?

For us, ethics education means developing young people’s ethical awareness and fostering dialogue on values questions. This helps equip them to navigate a changing world and participate actively in shaping its future. 

 

What we do

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    Promoting ethics education

    Learning humanistic values should be a core component of children’s education and personality development. We therefore support school projects that nurture the social and ethical competence they need for responsible interaction with one another and their surroundings.

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    Facilitating values dialogue

    We believe that more communication within and between societies, especially values-oriented communication, is needed to foster mutual understanding and trust. We therefore support institutions and networks that facilitate intercultural and interfaith dialogue.

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Our goal

We believe a firm moral compass is a fundamental requirement of good leadership - responsible decision-making demands a fair and principled approach. This is especially important in business and the global economy where higher ethical standards are urgently needed to promote the common good.  

We therefore fund educational initiatives that engage young people with broad ethical questions, intercultural values dialogue and standard-raising in business. We regard Hans Küng’s Global Ethic as a lodestar for our mission.  

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    Campus-Debatten

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    Die Campus-Debatten sind studentische Redewettbewerbe, bei denen gezielt Streitgespräche zu aktuellen Themen geführt werden. Dabei müssen die Debattanten eine zugeloste Meinung verteidigen und sich in die Argumente ihrer Mitstreiter reindenken, um diese zu entkräften. Dadurch wird die Reflexion der eigenen Meinung angeregt und der Austausch gefördert.

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    Wittenberg Zentrum für Globale Ethik

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    Was zeichnet gute Führung aus? Welche gesellschaftliche Verantwortung tragen Unternehmer? Und wie wirtschaftet man ethisch? Die Stipendiaten des Doktorandenkollegs "Ethik und gute Unternehmensführung" am Wittenberg-Zentrum für Globale Ethik (WZGE) forschen drei Jahre lang zu Fragen wie diesen.

    Förderung des Doktorandenkollegs

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    Weltethos-Institut Tübingen

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    Das Weltethos-Institut ist eine Forschungs- und Bildungseinrichtung an der Universität Tübingen mit dem Ziel, Werteorientierung und Vertrauen in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft zu fördern. Es wurde 2011 auf Initiative der Karl Schlecht Stiftung gegründet und hat 2012 seine Arbeit aufgenommen.

    Ziel des Weltethos-Instituts ist es, ethisches Handeln in der globalen Wirtschaft sowie den Austausch der Kulturen auf der Grundlage der Weltethos-Werte und der Praxis des Dialogs zu fördern.

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    Stiftung Weltethos

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    Weltethos, das ist die Vision eines globalen Bewusstseinswandels im Ethos: Menschen – ob weltweit, national oder lokal – sind für ein friedliches Zusammenleben auf gemeinsame elementare ethische Werte, Maßstäbe und Haltungen angewiesen.

    Die Stiftung Weltethos wurde initiiert von Prof. Dr. Hans Küng. Ziel der Stiftung Weltethos ist es, einen Grundbestand an den ethischen Normen zu formulieren, welche die Weltreligionen und die großen historischen Kulturräume miteinander verbinden

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Why is ethics education important?

Karl Schlecht explains what it means to him and why it’s a focus for our foundation. 

Ethics education for me means nurturing the humanistic qualities necessary for ethical action and trust-building through lifelong learning. 

What has inspired your deep engagement with ethics, especially trust? 

I’ve been inspired by the Global Ethic approach and the thinking of Erich Fromm. I’ve also learnt the meaning of trust and (creating) a culture of trust through my lifelong entrepreneurial experience as the founder and owner of Putzmeister, a concrete pump manufacturing firm operating globally. No customer buys a product they don’t trust. 

 

Why is ethics education so important? 

My goal for long-term success is to solidify a trust-based business culture within the company, as well as to recruit staff who act ethically. 

What is the Trust Codex, the Five-Question Test? 

1. Is it true? (Am I honest, do I have moral integrity?)
2. Am I genuine? (Sincere, open and communicative?)
3. Is it fair for all parties? (Decent and just?)
4. Will it promote friendship and goodwill?
5. Will it contribute to the wellbeing of everyone involved?

This builds trust and is, for me, the basis of our foundation’s overarching goal, the promotion of "good leadership," and of my motto, "seeking and promoting goodness itself." 

  • "Ethics education for me means nurturing the humanistic qualities necessary for ethical action and trust-building through lifelong learning."

    Dip.-Ing. Karl Schlecht  
    KSG Founder

     

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