La famiglia come luogo di educazione morale. Note di pedagogia fenomenologico-ermeneutica per il nostro tempo.

The paper orbits around family as an existential, i.e. as constitutive of human life in its specific unfolding as human, as well as primary and genuine space of moral education.More precisely, the first objective is to show - thanks to the epistemological code of fundamental pedagogy and to the of phenomenological-hermeneutic anthropology - that the essential structure of the person and the essential structure of family refer to each other, thus highlighting that for essence - and not for changing historical circumstances - the family, and in particular the parental relationship, is proper space for moral education. The second objective is to indicate how this vision of maternal and paternal educational responsibility, in their mutual determination, can disclose new horizons in the face of educational emergencies of our time, progressively gaining a determinate and consistent meaning for the phrase "moral education" itself.