Formation of Collective Responsibility Principles in Higher Professional Education

The scientific problem of the paper deals with the formation of a "new" paradigm of responsibility in higher professional education. The problem of the individual's moral responsibility in a complex structural, collective practice needs to be expanded; mechanisms of moral imputation of responsibility to groups should be developed. Commitment of higher education to the formation of a free, ready for the dialogue, individual can be considered as a paradigm which does not correspond to reality, requiring expansion or rethinking. Thus, the principles of individual ethics should be supplemented with the principles of collective responsibility. On the one hand, the emergence of new subjects of moral consciousness needs to be described; the mechanisms of their social interaction need to be revealed. On the other hand, conceptualization of the principles of collective moral responsibility, their use in practice of higher professional education become an important theoretical and practical task. In the paper, we turn to the concept of collective moral responsibility and consider the possibility of implementing the principle of collective responsibility in the society. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.