The Virtue Approach to Moral Education: Some Conceptual Clarifications
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In this paper, the virtue approach can be distinguished from other main perspectives on moral education, in particular from the so-called cognitive-developmental approach (including the just community approach), and only the definition that refers to an ethics of virtue will have the required differentiating capacity.Abstract:
There is a lot of talking and writing on virtues and education nowadays. In spite of this, a clear and convincing account of the defining characteristics of the virtue approach to moral education is still lacking. This paper suggests and discusses three different definitions of such an approach. With reference to each definition it is examined whether the virtue approach can be distinguished from other main perspectives on moral education, in particular from the so-called cognitive-developmental approach (including the just community approach). It is argued that only the definition that refers to an ethics of virtue will have the required differentiating capacity. Consequently, only on the basis of this definition can the virtue approach be regarded as a qualitatively new development in research on moral education.read more
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Modern Moral Philosophy
TL;DR: The authors argued that it is not profitable for us at present to do moral philosophy; that it should be laid aside at any rate until we have an adequate philosophy of psychology, in which we are conspicuously lacking.
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The Cognitive--Developmental Approach to Moral Education.
TL;DR: In this article, the aim of education is growth or development, both intellectual and moral, and the goal is to assist the school in the greatest of all con- structions -the building of a free and powerful character.