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Virtue ethics and moral education / edited by David Carr and Jan Steutel.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moral education.
- Virtue.
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of original essays on virtue ethics and moral education seeks to fill this gap in the recent literature of moral education, combining broader analyses with detailed coverage of:* the varieties of virtue* weakness and integrity* relativism and rival traditions* means and methods of educating the virtuesThe rare collaboration of professional ethical theorists and educational philosophers provides a ground-breaking work and an exciting new focus in a growing area of research.
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Virtue Ethics and Moral Education; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Part 1: Introduction; 1. Virtue ethics and the virtue approach to moral education: Jan Steutel and David Carr; Part 2: General issues; 2. Virtue, eudaimonia and teleological ethics: Nicholas Dent; 3. Character development and Aristotelian virtue: Nancy Sherman; 4. Virtue, phronesis and learning: Joseph Dunne; Part 3: Varieties of virtue; 5. Cultivating the intellectual and moral virtues: Randall Curren; 6. Virtues of benevolence and justice: James D. Wallace
- 7. Self-regarding and other-regarding virtues: Michael Slote Part 4: Weakness and integrity; 8. Moral growth and the unity of the virtues: Bonnie Kent; 9. The virtues of will-power: self-control and deliberation: Jan Steutel; 10. Virtue, akrasia and moral weakness: David Carr; Part 5: Relativism and rival traditions; 11. Virtue, truth and relativism: John Haldane; 12. Justice, care and other virtues: a critique of Kohlberg's theory of moral development: Paul Crittenden; 13. Liberal virtue and moral enfeeblement: Eamonn Callan; Part 6: Educating the virtues: means and methods
- 14. Virtues, character and moral dispositions: Joel J. Kupperman 15. Habituation and training in early moral upbringing: Ben Spiecker; 16. Trust, traditions and pluralism: human flourishing and liberal polity: Kenneth A. Strike; Part 7: Conclusion; 17. The virtue approach to moral education: pointers, problems and prospects: David Carr and Jan Steutel; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-14338-X
- 0-203-97836-6
- 9780203978368
- OCLC:
- 264454281
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