To Study Fascism: A Reflection from the Development of Moral

The reflections in this chapter focus, above all, on an attempt to approximate the conception of the authoritarian personality brought by Theodor W. Adorno in the twentieth century and the development of moral competence thought by contemporary researcher George Lind. Moral competence is taken as a primordial element for the strengthening of a democratic and antiauthoritarian moral education. This approach allows us to understand the current challenges faced in defense of the democratic subject and to glimpse possible paths toward its objective realization. The dilemmas experienced by individuals in late capitalism society require man to increasingly adapt and be passive to reality, which results in the growing inability of individuals to solve problems and conflicts socially acquired. Through moral development, we can glimpse the overcoming of such contradictions, considering that the experience of a democratic state means the valorization of deliberation and rational discussion, because they allow subjects to strengthen autonomous processes in which deceit and violence are not able to submit them to all types of authority.