Abstract The purpose of this paper is to reveal the importance of personality education in the era of the 4th revolution. Especially, what I want to focus on in this thesis is emotional education among personality education. However, recently experimental psychology and experimental philosophy argue that not only reason but also emotions participate in the process of moral judgment. Through the verification process using actual scientific tools, these facts have been clearly proven. This can be said to imply the importance of emotional education beyond education that emphasizes only rational activities in personality education. In other words, it means that not only reason but also emotions are necessary for right and rational judgment. Furthermore, it can be said that education on emotions is a necessary condition for cultivating right personality, which is the basic virtue for right and rational judgment. Therefore, this paper will reveal the importance of emotional education through fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), a research method used by experimental philosophers or experimental psychologists. Also, I will examine why emotional education is important in Plato’s the tripartite soul and discuss the use of virtue ethics as a methodology for emotional education. Key words: The 4th Industrial Revolution, Personality Education, The Virtue Theory, Emotion Education, Plato’s the Tripartite Soul Contents 1. Introduction 2. The Importance of Emotional Education through the Trolley Problem 3. Emotion through Plato’s the Tripartite Soul
4. Conclusion: Virtue Ethics as a Methodology for Emotion Education |
