Welcome to contact the Center for Teaching and Research in Ethics (CEIE), at the Catholic University of Angola (UCAN).
In addition to its close connection with reflection and all teaching at UCAN, CEIE mobilizes institutional ethical culture, researches and carries out actions tending to ethical culture in society in general, which is, after all, made up of interactions between individuals and collectivities in free or onerous relationships. The CEIE publishes its research, in addition to framing the ethical evaluation of research projects involving human beings, that is, projects linked directly or indirectly to the UCAN.
Historically, some publications have become famous, especially those of the New York Times and those of the Wall Street Street Journal, according to which ethics is not taught. This triggered a debate that, from the 1980s onwards, has not ceased to uncover evidence that, throughout history, has shown that ethics is effectively taught and that this produces success. In uncovering these evidences, many facts and protagonists have been remembered, including the relevant debate led by Socrates. As in relation to the teaching or not of ethics, and in relation to similar intriguing questions, the same has been happening in relation to the value or not of being ethical. Now, the UCAN, due to its nature, mission and values, can be compared to a true ethical field of experimentation, sowing, cultivation and harvesting, despite the fact that, like any productive agricultural field, everything in it happens sometimes above and sometimes below of the desired average as excellent.
As you can see, at CEIE, researchers - who are also professors - and collaborators, we deal with questions that are simultaneously stimulating and challenging, apparently 'useless' but indispensable, individualized but never isolatable. Hence, in addition to dealing with the questions that arise from the teaching areas of the UCAN, among which Ethics and Law, Ethics and Economics, Ethics applied to Engineering, Administration, Psychology, Pedagogy, social action and other areas, the CEIE it also deals with wide-ranging, transversal and current issues, such as ethics, the person and his actions, bioethics, ethics in politics, justice, administration and research, ethics and teaching, ethics and religion, ethics and science, ethics and the historical time, ethics and circumstances..., which, naturally, makes it a multi-, inter-, trans-disciplinary center, consistent with the demands of the centrality of ethics, which is its object of study, and consistent with the multiple subjects that it involves. This last aspect is revealed by the network of partnerships that the CEIE establishes with the various teaching and research organic units of the UCAN and with various entities external to it.
It is therefore worthwhile paying attention to ethics, including embracing the inner and outer conflicts and dilemmas that it presents to each agent. In this context, we welcome you once again and hope that your contact with the CEIE will further sharpen your many-sided questions about being ethical.