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Practice, Sensibility and Moral Education
Author(s) -
BAKHURST DAVID
Publication year - 2018
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 - 10.1111/1467-9752.12329
Subject(s) - sensibility , expansive , epistemology , sociology , moral psychology , moral philosophy , moral disengagement , philosophy of education , moral education , philosophy , environmental ethics , law , pedagogy , higher education , political science , materials science , compressive strength , composite material
This paper considers the style of moral philosophy that emerged in the mid‐1970s in the writings of John McDowell and David Wiggins and examines its implications for moral education. After characterising the position, I examine whether it broadens or narrows the horizons of moral philosophy. Though McDowell's notorious quietism might suggest the latter, I argue that Wiggins offers a more expansive vision. I then explore how the view might be developed—drawing, for example, on the work of Jonathan Dancy and Alice Crary—before turning to a discussion of moral education informed by Iris Murdoch's conception of the cultivation of moral vision. The outcome, I hope, exemplifies the ‘meet’ between philosophical reflection and moral life to which Wiggins aspires.