Intergenerational interaction and the construction of the moral subject

The construction of the moral subject is examined here in its interactive dimension, with a particular focus on the way in which the posture of the educator impacts the subject in becoming. The actors of this transmission manifest an ambivalence that expresses the tension between an intense educational desire and a difficulty in holding a subjective position at the heart of the intergenerational dissymmetry. For its part, the academic world has extracted itself from a narrowly structuralist understanding of moral development so as to develop epistemic dispositions that allow a more variable, more individuated reality (the philosophy of care, positive psychology). Nevertheless, it remains essential to reflect on a model of this development that also calls for a structuring universality to account for this process of transmission.