Abstract

Human beings are the highest form of God’s creation among other creatures. Moral education is carried out to enable human beings to live up to their noble purpose of life as destined by God. In order to strive for their noble destiny, human beings have three spiritual powers that must be empowered and utilized in their lives, namely conscience, mind, and volition. In order for those powers to be useful optimally, they must be empowered. In order to empower conscience, it is necessary to cultivate silence in life so that we are able to listen to the gentle whisper of conscience which leads to a good life as the purpose in the journey of life. To prevent the conscience from straying, it needs to have a moral compass which would be the basis to determine the next steps. Furthermore, one should have clear mind to determine the ways, steps, means, and directions to arrive at the expected goal. Finally, in order to realize the qualified life, which has been determined to be done, human beings have willpower to follow up. To determine and decide something, human beings must be courageous to take action. In order to be courageous to take action, we need to have a strong consideration that what we are doing is good and right. Thus, we will dare to be held accountable for any outcomes of the actions we have taken as right and just. That is, essentially, the true human destiny, namely to strive for goodness and truth. DOI : https://doi.org/10.24071/ijiet.2018.020109

Highlights

  • Human beings are the highest form of God’s creation among all other creatures

  • In addition to having a conscience to guide them to good life goals, which are worth striving for, and creativity to help them understand everything better in order to face challenges to achieve more valuable life, human beings have free will to choose their actions to realize the kind of life they are dreaming of

  • Volition is the conscious inner impulse, based on the consideration of the feelings of conscience, mind power, and the whole person of man which leads to activities directed towards the achievement of a particular purpose related to his personal needs

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Summary

Introduction

Human beings are the highest form of God’s creation among all other creatures. Based on their destiny, human beings are not merely physical beings, and spiritual beings, who possess creativity (cognitive), sense (affective), and willpower (co native) (Sudiarja, Subanar, Sunardi, and Sarkim, 2006: 233-249). The activities typically done by human beings take place based on their feeling, thoughts, judgments, decisionmaking, as well as willpower, which are manifested in physical actions (Montemayor, 1994:18) Just as they have unique spiritual abilities, human beings have obligation to act morally, functioning their spiritual power to the best of their ability to sustain the noble destiny as human beings. To live our lives as subjects, instead of objects, it would be great if we realize who we are as noble creatures, which have freedom, autonomy, selfdetermination, and ability to make judgments, choose, make decision, and act in accordance to our life’s goals and orientations. After understanding the description of the three inner powers and how they function, we need to conduct moral education to empower them so they have an increasingly optimal role for the development of our life to become whole human persons who have integrity, are more autonomous interpersonally and interpersonally, are more valuable, have a positive attitude and ability in developing oneself interpersonally

Theory The Role of Conscience
Theory Application Moral Education to Build a Qualified Life
Conclusions

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