David Carr / Jan Steutel (eds.)

Virtue Ethics and Moral Education

Herausgeber: Carr, David; Steutel, Jan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 virtues The 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780415170734
• ISBN-10: 0415170737
• Artikelnr.: 22232723

Autorenporträt

David Carr is Reader in the Faculty of Education at the University of Edinburgh. He is editor of Education, Knowledge and Truth (Routledge 1998) and is writing a book on Ethical Issues in Teaching (forthcoming with Routledge)., Jan Steutel is Reader in Philosophy of Education at the Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Virtue Ethics and the Virtue Approach to Moral Education
Jan Steutel
David Carr; Part 2 General Issues; Chapter 2 Virtue
Eudaimonia and Teleological Ethics
Nicholas Dent; Chapter 3 Character Development and Aristotelian Virtue
Nancy Sherman; Chapter 4 Virtue
Phronesis and Learning
Joseph Dunne; Part 3 Varieties of Virtue; Chapter 5 Cultivating the Intellectual and Moral Virtues
Randall Curren; Chapter 6 Virtues of Benevolence and Justice
James D. Wallace; Chapter 7 Self-Regarding and Other-Regarding Virtues
Michael Slote; Part 4 Weakness and Integrity; Chapter 8 Moral Growth and the Unity of the Virtues
Bonnie Kent; Chapter 9 The Virtues of Will-Power
Jan Steutel; Chapter 10 Virtue
Akrasia and Moral Weakness
David Carr; Part 5 Relativism and Revial Traditions; Chapter 11 Virtue
Truth and Relativism
John Haldane; Chapter 12 Justice
Care and Other Virtues
Paul Crittenden; Chapter 13 Liberal Virtue and Moral Enfeeblement
Eamonn Callan; Part 6 Educating the Virtues; Chapter 14 Virtues
Character
and Moral Dispositions
Joel J. Kupperman; Chapter 15 Habituation and Training in Early Moral Upbringing
Ben Spiecker; Chapter 16 Trust
Traditions and Pluralism
Kenneth A. Strike; Part 7 Conclusion; Chapter 17 The Virtue Approach to Moral Education
David Carr
Jan Steutel;