ABSTRACT
One of the tasks of moral education is to allow moral agents to be free of worries through understanding the nature of moral norms. Philosophical doctrines were developed which became the metaphysical counterparts of the social arrangement by positing absolute, objective and universal norms which grounded the inescapable obligations of each and every agent. Immanuel Kant was able to justify the basic norms of Western ethics by specific criteria. However, there is the problem that this is a morality which is aimed at generating ethical principles on the basis of pure reason which the agent is then obliged to obey. On an Aristotelian view, the task of moral education for nurses would not be just to impart knowledge of moral norms or to train the intellect to think in certain ways about moral problems. The education would proceed by three steps: first, the training of habits, second, the development of attitudes, and third, reflection upon the nurse's actions.
