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Reasons, Rules and Virtues in Moral Education
Author(s) -
Wringe C.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9752.00089
Subject(s) - assertion , virtue , sociology , epistemology , value (mathematics) , pluralism (philosophy) , moral education , moral reasoning , moral development , virtue ethics , environmental ethics , social cognitive theory of morality , moral disengagement , social psychology , psychology , philosophy , pedagogy , machine learning , computer science , programming language
Practical and theoretical shortcomings of an approach to moral education based on the development of moral reasoning are noted and the alternative of promoting the virtues is considered. The identification of appropriate virtues with modes of commitment and conduct supportive of a particular way of life is held to raise the further question of why a particular way of life should be favoured, and how our own way of life should be characterised. This latter, permitting social and geographical mobility, anonymity and value pluralism, is contrasted with that of smaller, more traditional communities paradigmatic of communitarian ethics. An ethic of respect for equal freedom is held to be compatible with the current nature of society and to be favoured by the virtue of appropriate self‐assertion. The educational implications of such a conclusion are explored.