With a philosophical approach, this work provides a discussion about ethical education from the possibilities of the art of living. It states that the art of living has an aesthetic dimension which is used by life itself as a model, with the creation of different strategies (from interactive to literary) related to universal principles. With its appeal to feelings and to life's concrete conditions, this ethics does not exclude the recognition of a norm that excels the rules created by a subject; that is, universality and particularity do not exclude each other. The text presents (1) the Hellenic contribution to the art of living, through the therapeutic philosophizing model and (2) the role of emotions and phronesis in the relation between the universal and private domains to indicate that (3) an ethical-aesthetic kind of education is constituted by the recognition of tension between the singular I and (the common ethos) we.
The art of living; Ethics; Phronesis; Ethical aesthetic education