After decades of marginalization in the secularized twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent resurgence in American higher education, with the establishment of more than 100 ethics centers and programs on campuses across the country. Yet the idea that the university has a civic responsibility to teach its undergraduate students ethics and morality has been met with skepticism, suspicion, and even outright rejection from both inside and outside the academy. In this collection, renowned scholars of philosophy, (...) politics, and religion debate the role of ethics in the university, investigating whether universities should proactively cultivate morality and ethics, what teaching ethics entails, and what moral education should accomplish. The essays quickly open up to broader questions regarding the very purpose of a university education in modern society. Editors Elizabeth Kiss and J. Peter Euben survey the history of ethics in higher education, then engage with provocative recent writings by Stanley Fish in which he argues that universities should not be involved in moral education. Stanley Hauerwas responds, offering a theological perspective on the university’s purpose. Contributors look at the place of politics in moral education; suggest that increasingly diverse, multicultural student bodies are resources for the teaching of ethics; and show how the debate over civic education in public grade-schools provides valuable lessons for higher education. Others reflect on the virtues and character traits that a moral education should foster in students—such as honesty, tolerance, and integrity—and the ways that ethical training formally and informally happens on campuses today, from the classroom to the basketball court. _Debating Moral Education_ is a critical contribution to the ongoing discussion of the role and evolution of ethics education in the modern liberal arts university. _Contributors_. Lawrence Blum, Romand Coles, J. Peter Euben, Stanley Fish, Michael Allen Gillespie, Ruth W. Grant, Stanley Hauerwas, David A. Hoekema, Elizabeth Kiss, Patchen Markell, Susan Jane McWilliams, Wilson Carey McWilliams, J. Donald Moon, James Bernard Murphy, Noah Pickus, Julie A. Reuben, George Shulman, Elizabeth V. Spelman. (shrink)

Sufism has been neglected in the religious discourse and educational practices of modernist Muslims in the Islamic world, including Indonesia, where Kiai Moechtar Boechari (1899-1926) had emerged as an early activist in the Muhammadiyah Surakarta and Sufism. This research aims to examine Kiai Boechari’s religious thought, emphasizing the idea of Sufism as a practice of moral education (_akhlaq_). The data of research comprised mainly documentation and library archives. The findings reveal that Kiai Boechari’s religious thinking was driven by (...) persistence in reformulating Islam to be relevant and able to answer the challenges of the modern era based on purification and dynamization. Boechari emphasized on the problem of purifying faith (_aqidah_), the dynamics of worldly _muamalah_ problems, comparative religions, women’s emancipation, and moral Sufism. Kiai Boechari’s Sufism thought emphasized the purification of _aq__i__dah_, guided by the Quran and Sunnah, respect for the Shari’a, and the practice of individual social moral education, which are characteristics of the typology of Sufism (_transcendental mysticism_), moral Sufism, and orthodox/prophetic Sufism. This was known as neo-Sufism formulated by Kiai Boechari to practice moral education. It requires persistence to carry out the process of purifying oneself from despicable and immoral traits (_takhalli_), such as anger, envy, arrogance, pride, riya, and the urge to lust; which eventually starts the process of internalizing good qualities (_tahalli_), culminating in _mahabbah_, the disappearance of the human hijab (_tajalli_), giving a peak of spiritual experience. This study implicates that, in the prophetic orientation of Sufism, spiritual experience is not an end in itself, for the sake of the experience itself, but to give meaning to actions in history. (shrink)

Moral Philosophy and Moral Education considers the interconnections of ethics, education, and the philosophy of culture as related to the human concern with self-knowledge. The individual self finds its inner life writ large in the forms of culture such as religion, art, and history. Such forms of cultural life represent and embody normative ideals that can provide the necessary content to shape the character and the conduct of civic life. Thora Ilin Bayer draws upon the ancient (...) Greek view of education as paideia and the conception of Bildung of the German idealist philosophers. These two ideas of education aim at the development of the whole person as distinct from training in a particular skill, subject matter, technique, or occupation. The education of the whole person aims at the production in the individual of a broad mental outlook harmoniously joined with a knowledge of the great perspectives and principles of human culture as it takes its various shapes within the history of humanity. Moral philosophy requires both culture and the individual as its terms of inquiry, and moral education requires a vision of how to have these two terms interact to form a whole. (shrink)

In 2011 the Journal of Moral Education (JME) celebrated its 40th anniversary of publication. It seemed appropriate to examine and reflect on the JME?s achievements by reviewing its evolution and contribution to the emerging field of moral education and development. Moral education trends, as reflected in the 945 articles published in JME from 1971 to 2011, were investigated by content analysis. The research objectives were: to discover the trends in moral education as (...) represented by published articles and special issues (by analysis of disciplinary approaches, key topics, research methodologies and age-related educational levels) and to examine the international and gender-related development of the journal and the influence of its contributors (by analysis of first authors and editorial board members). The findings identify important concerns, key research topics and neglected areas in moral education and development. Analysis offers an insight into the contribution of JME as the main international interdisciplinary journal in this field, to the history of moral education, to theory and practice and in the changing socio-cultural contexts of the past 40 years. Discussion of the findings is offered, limitations are acknowledged and implications for future directions for the journal considered. (shrink)

America’s moral educators have continually splintered our humanity throughout higher education’s history. Unable to agree upon a common ethical understanding of our humanity, educators turned to shards of our identity to help students find their moral bearings. The Dismantling of Moral Education explains why and how we arrived at this situation.

This article is a critical discussion of two recent papers by Michael Hand on moral education. The first is his ‘Towards a Theory of Moral Education’, published in the Journal of Philosophy of Education in 2014. The second is a chapter called ‘Beyond Moral Education?’ in an edited book of new perspectives on my own work in philosophy and history of education, published in the same year. His two papers are linked in (...) that he applies the theory outlined in the former to a critique in the latter of my views on education in altruism in a 1990 publication. I introduce this article by outlining the tradition of recent philosophical thought about moral education, beginning with that of Richard Peters, in which Hand is working. (shrink)

During the post-Second World War period, Adam Smith’s moral theory was down-played and he acquired the undeserved reputation of an amoral, radical individualist. The trend in recent scholarship has been to rehabilitate him as a moral theorist and this article continues that trend. After a sketch of Smith’s moral theory, the article addresses his little-studied views on moral education. This education is important in the creation of human excellence and social stability. Smith offers a (...) series of recommendations about the moral education of the young. For him, liberal society needs moral education: some of it is to be provided privately and some is to be provided by the public. (shrink)

Moral education is concerned with depolarising the tension between loyalty and sedition, but little work has been done in the field to describe and map the territory between these poles. This paper proposes that the concept of dissent accomplishes this task and satisfies the need for a construct which describes the condition of sitting apart from those one is a part of. Through a seven‐part descriptive and prescriptive conceptual analysis it is revealed that this kind of ‘loyal disagreement’ (...) depends upon disagreeing within rigorous and desirable conceptions of franchise, shared history, contra‐hegemony, ethical principles, reasonable heresy and a publicly pronounced attitude of persuasion. Through revealing dissent’s conceptual complexity, this argument also demonstrates that such complexity is also, generally speaking, central to the aims of moral education insofar as these can be described as making correct judgements in the interests of maintaining social relationships. (shrink)

Kant’s views on human history have been widely studied, but commentators have rarely discussed his speculative account of humanity’s origins, assuming that it does not neatly fit into his critical philosophy. This paper challenges this assumption by defending two claims. First, Kant’s major essay on this topic, “Conjectural Beginning of Human History,” is a key component of his teleological understanding of human history and should be incorporated into the study of his critical philosophy. Second, the story of humanity’s origins informs (...) Kant’s prescriptions for our moral education by better explaining individual development and providing guidelines for it. (shrink)

Teaching Ethics in Schools provides a fresh approach to moral education. Far from prescribing a rigid set of mandated values, codes of conduct, behaviour management plans, or religious instruction, Philip Cam skilfully presents ethical thinking and reasoning as a dynamic and essential aspect of school life. The first section of the book provides a clear introduction to the theoretical premise of reflection and collaborative enquiry. It draws on the history of philosophy in succinct terms, and relates this to (...) contemporary school contexts, to support teachers in their conceptual understanding. In Part Two, an array of activities, exercises and discussion points are provided as stimuli for teachers to adapt and apply across diverse subject areas, throughout all stages of school. The focus lies in preparing students to think reflectively, to question and probe, and ultimately develop their own enhanced capacity for ethical reasoning and considerate behaviour and conduct. Teaching Ethics in Schools shows how an ethical framework forms a natural fit with recent educational trends. It demonstrates how an ethics-based model can influence habits of mind and underpin teaching practices to stimulate ethical enquiry, to encourage students to think for themselves and develop good moral judgment, and to promote social values and beneficial outcomes both within the classroom and beyond. (shrink)

The current moral education is focused on character building of Lickona. Several papers and books pointed out that his thesis has some drawbacks. As a teacher in charge of moral education in class, I have also found out them without effort. For these reasons, I simply pointed out disadvantages of Lickona’s thesis on this paper, then studied how to apply philosophical community of inquiry (PCOI) as the new model of moral education for Korean middle (...) school classes (Now I teach students moral subject at Wondong middle school in Gyeong-nam, Republic of Korea). This study is thought to be well-grounded as an alternative idea because it has been very successful when I have tried to apply PCOI model to Korean classroom for about 4 years. With this PCOI model, I won the first rank in Gyeong-nam secondary teaching contest in 2007. I have tried to apply PCOI model to Korean history, economy, the world history and geography class as well as moral class. And I have been studying how to apply to these subjects more effectively. (shrink)

덕육(德育)을 기초로 하는 공자의 도덕교육 사상은 인간다움이라는 보편적인 실천 원리인 ‘인(仁)’을 핵심 내용으로 하고 있으며, 도덕 주체가 당면한 현실에서 구현되는 도덕적 행위규범인 ‘예(禮)’를 외형적 요소로 하고 있다. 또한 교육방법론의 측면에서는 ‘수기(修己)’와 ‘치인(治人)’이라는 내재적 수양방법과 도덕 교화방법으로 구분할 수도 있다. 본 연구는 공자(孔子)의 도덕교육 사상을 인격과 정치의 문제를 중심으로 분석하였다. 이는 도덕적 가치의 혼란과 인간 소외 현상으로 대변되는 현재의 교육적 실효성에 관한 근본적인 문제 제기를 통하여 반성적인 차원에서 도덕교육이나 인성교육의 의미를 진단해보고, 아울러 공자의 도덕교육론이 갖는 개인윤리적 의미와 사회윤리적 의미를 탐구하기 위한 (...) 것이다. 공자를 대표로 하는 유학의 학문적 전통은 덕목을 통한 덕성(德性)의 함양과 실천적인 덕행(德行) 교육이라는 측면에 있어서 현재까지도 직접적으로 우리의 학문과 교육 및 문화에 영향을 주고 있다. 공자의 도덕교육론은 현 시대의 도덕교육의 내용을 풍부히 하고, 시대의 변화와 발전에 따른 미래 지향적 도덕과 교육과정 구성 및 교재 개발에 있어서 일조할 것이다. (shrink)

순자의 도덕(道德)교육은 본성(本性)을 변화시키는 교육을 통하여 도덕인을 만드는 화성기위(化性起僞)’ 개념으로 설명될 수 있다. 즉, ‘화성기위’는 자기 성찰을 통한 수양의 과정이며, 사회가 요청하는 이상적인 인간이 되기 위한 자기 변화의 과정이다. 또한, ‘화성기위’는 도덕교육의 필요성과 목적으로서의 ‘화성(化性)’과 도덕교육의 내용과 방법으로서의 ‘기위(起僞)’로 구분할 수 있다. 성악설(性惡說)에 기초하고 있는 인간의 본성에 관한 순자의 이해는 도덕적인 문제의 발생에 따른 해결을 필요로 한다. 도덕적인 사회를 이루기 위해서는 도덕을 내용으로 하는 교육 방법이 모색되어야 하며, 궁극적으로는 사회가 요청하는 이상적인 인간상을 목표로 하여야 한다. 도덕과 인격의 문제는 유학에서 매우 (...) 중시되는 주제이다. 교육의 궁극적인 목적은 사회적으로 요청되는 인재를 양성하는 것이다. 화성기위(化性起僞)를 통해 체현되는 사군자(士君子)와 성인(聖人)은 그 시대가 요청하는 인격적 리더이다. (shrink)

환경 윤리에 대한 윤리학적 의견이 분분하기는 하지만 인간과 자연에 관한 관계의 재정립, 인간의 자연에 대한 의식 및 인식의 전환, 도덕적 의무와 책임의 확대 등이 도덕·윤리과에서 담당해야 할 환경 윤리 교육의 공통된 주제로 모아진다. 곧 ‘환경 교육’은 전 교과에서 시행될 수 있지만, ‘환경 윤리 교육’은 도덕⋅윤리과의 정체성적 성격을 갖는다고 할 수 있다. 『도덕』 교과서에서 환경 문제에 관한 단원은 외형적인 틀은 체계를 갖추었다고 할 수 있다. 하지만 모순되는 관점의 병렬적 진술, 문명과 자연의 이분구도, 동양 사상에 대한 비주류적 접근 혹은 개인적 태도에 초점을 (...) 맞춘 진술 등이 문제점으로 지적될 수 있을 것이다. 『윤리와 사상』에서도 생태주의와 인간 중심주의의 대결구도, 인간을 환경 혹은 생태계의 암적인 존재로 몰아가고 있는 것이 문제점으로 지적될 수 있다. 교수-학습 과정에 있어서 윤리 교육은 ‘지정행(知情行)’의 통합 교육이 되어야 한다. 그런데 환경 문제의 근원적인 원인을 ‘인식’에 둔다면, 고등학교 환경 윤리 교육의 교수-학습의 중요도는 ‘인지＞정의, 행동’으로 되어야 한다. 고등학생은 환경 윤리학에 대한 고차의 지식과 관점을 비판적으로 검토할 수준이 되기 때문이다. 동양 사상의 자연관도 기왕의 환경 윤리학의 ‘관점’의 틀을 통해 동일-차이를 설명하는 방식이 되어야 한다. 또 유학, 도가, 불교를 묶어서 ‘동양’이라는 틀로 설명할 것이 아니라 각각의 사상이 갖고 있는 자연에 대한 관점이 비교되어야 한다. 즉 환경 윤리학의 관점과의 동일-차이/ 유, 불, 도의 동일-차이가 종횡으로 설명된다면 기왕의 환경 윤리학을 보완 내지는 제3의 방식이 제시될 수도 있을 것이다. (shrink)

교사는 도덕과 수업을 위해 도덕과 교육과정을 구체화한 도덕과 교과서를 연구한다. 연구의 주된 목적은 도덕과 교과서를 해석의 텍스트로 활용하여 교육과정을 가르치기 위해서이다. 해석 텍스트로서 도덕과 교과서는 교과서 저자들이 도덕과 교육과정을 주제로 서술한 일종의 서사이다. 다른 서사 텍스트와 달리 저자성이 축소된 도덕과 교과서는 텍스트에 초점을 두는 서사 이론의 관점에서 읽을 수 있다. 구조주의 서사이론은 텍스트에 초점을 두면서 작품의 의미가 발생하는 전반적 구조를 밝힌다. 본 연구에서는 구조주의 서사이론의 고전으로 평가되는 주네트의 『서사담론』을 중심으로 그의 이론을 정리하고, 그 정리에 터하여 도덕과 교과서라는 서사담론을 분석한다. 이를 (...) 통해 도덕과 교과서 단원의 전체적 서사구조는 도덕과 목표 및 수업에 관한 지배적 경향을 ‘비초점화’ 관점에서 ‘겉 이야기’의 서술자가 피서술자에게 요약하는 목소리로 말하고 있음을 확인할 수 있다. 또한 교과서 저자의 서사행위에서도 ‘겉 이야기-이종이야기’ 서술자가 ‘겉 이야기’의 피서술자에게 ‘비초점화’ 관점에서 말하는 형식을 확인할 수 있다. 그리고 각 차시를 구성하는 주요 서사에서는 내포 독자가 실제 독자와 동일시됨을 확인할 수 있다. 이러한 특성들은 교과서 서술자가 실제 독자에게 설명하고 설득하는 형식에 가깝다. 따라서 도덕과 교과서의 개선을 위해서는 현행 교과서에 나타난 주된 서사 형식의 변경 방안을 모색해야 한다. (shrink)

사람과 사람 사이의 올바른 관계를 추구하는 유학은 수기(修己)와 치인(治人)이라는 논리구조를 통하여 도덕적 개인이 공동체의 발전에 기여하는 이상향을 그린다. 16세기 한국 성리학의 태두인 퇴계 이황은 자신의 교육적 의도와 관심을 반영하고 성리학의 본체와 공부의 전 과정을 그림 열 폭에 정리하여 『성학십도』를 만들었다. 『성학십도』에서 표방하는 교육의 목적은 성인(聖人)이 되는데 있으며, 이는 성찰적이며 실천적인 도덕인이 되고자 하는 도덕교육의 목적과도 궁극적으로 그 궤를 같이 한다. 『성학십도』의 전체 주제는 경(敬)을 기초로 인륜과 도덕의 원리를 밝혀 인간의 본성을 회복하기 위한 것과 연관된다. 경(敬)은 또한 수양의 목적이자 방법이며, 주요 (...) 내용이다. 전통 유학의 교육 방식은 교육의 목적ㆍ내용ㆍ방법 간의 유기적 통합성을 지향하고 있으며, 내용과 방법에 있어서 지(知)와 행(行)의 병진이라는 일관성을 드러내고 있다. 전통문화가 가지고 있는 보편적 가치를 탐구하고, 전통교육의 측면에서 도덕문화를 다시 일으키는 것은 현재와 미래에 유효한 것들이 과거의 전통으로부터 연원한다는 점을 논의하는 것으로서 오늘의 교육 문제를 해결하는 데 있어서 유용할 수 있다. 특히, 전통교육이 추구했던 도덕교육의 본질을 분석하여 교육의 궁극적 목적인 ‘자신을 실현하고’ ‘공동체를 배려’할 수 있는 인재를 배양하기 위한 반성적 접근은 매우 의미가 있다. (shrink)

There is an apparent tension between Immanuel Kant's model of moral agency and his often-neglected philosophy of moral education. On the one hand, Kant's account of moral knowledge and decision-making seems to be one that can be self-taught. Kant's famous categorical imperative and related 'fact of reason' argument suggest that we learn the content and application of the moral law on our own. On the other hand, Kant has a sophisticated and detailed account of (...) class='Hi'>moral education that goes well beyond the kind of education a person would receive in the course of ordinary childhood experience. The task of this paper will be to reconcile these seemingly conflicting claims. Ultimately, I argue, Kant's philosophy of education makes sense as a part of his moral theory if we look not only at individual moral decisions, but also at the goals or ends that these moral decisions are intended to achieve. In Kant's case, this end is what he calls the highest good, and, I argue, the most coherent account of the highest good is a kind of ethical community and end of history, similar to the Groundwork 's realm of ends. Seen as a tool to bring about and sustain such a community, Kant's philosophy of moral education exists as a coherent and important part of his moral philosophy. (shrink)

The aim of this article is to offer a review of gratitude researches in youth. Gratitude is a positive emotion occurred in exchange-based relationships when one person acknowledges receiving a valuable benefit from others. Gratitude is essential to well-being and mental health throughout the life span. Although the adult literature on gratitude has grown substantially in the past few decades, the empirical research on gratitude in children and adolescent is in its infancy. Gratitude interventions in children and adolescents have a (...) short history, but initial findings are very promising. In this article, I review theoretical and empirical work on gratitude as a moral emotion, discuss the unique benefits of gratitude for youth, and analyze interventions for promoting gratitude in children and adolescents. Finally, I conclude by suggesting implications of gratitude interventions that can be applied in moral education. (shrink)

This paper challenges a pervasive curricular justification for educationally acquainting young people with stories of genocide and other moral horrors from history. According to this justification, doing so favours the development of psycho-social soft skills connected with interpersonal awareness and the establishment and maintenance of positive relationships. It is argued that this justification not only renders the specific historical content incidental to the development of these skills. The educational intention of promoting such psycho-social soft skills by way of studying (...) moral horrors in history constitutes an ethically problematic instrumentalisation of the historical material itself. (shrink)

The article provides arguments for including social-emotional education in moral education. The first part of the article presents an analysis of the concept of “emotional intelligence”, considering the history of its creation and the methodological difficulties with which this concept is burdened. In the second part of the article, the expectations that can be placed on emotional education classes are formulated. The starting point is empirical research that examined the effectiveness of past attempts to provide emotional (...) education to adolescents and adults. The last part of the article discusses the assumptions of the pedagogical movement that emerged in the 1990s, which calls for conducting classes in the field of so-called “character education”. Furthermore, experiences from social-emotional learning (SEL) classes developed by the University of Illinois are discussed. The text also briefly takes into account Spain's first experiences in the field of emotional education. (shrink)

(2007) History of Philosophy Quarterly. 24, 147-168.

Taiwan has gradually transformed from an authoritarian to a democratic society. The education system is moving from uniformity to diversity, from authoritarian centralization to deregulation and pluralism. Moral education is a reflection of, and influenced by, educational reform and social change, as this paper shows in describing the history of moral education in Taiwan. From 1949 to the 1980s, Taiwan's moral education consisted of ideological, nationalistic, political education and the teaching of a (...) strict code of conduct. Since the late 1980s moral education has changed rapidly due to educational reforms. Political ideologies and traditional culture in moral education have gradually been phased out. Since August 2004, diversified and generalized moral education has replaced the special subject of moral education offered in school. Moral education in Taiwan faces great changes and new challenges. The paper concludes by suggesting some strategies, such as facilitating critical thinking, civic values and multiple teaching approaches, for the development of a new moral education suitable to modern democratic society in Taiwan. (shrink)

기본적으로 『맹자(孟子)』에 나타나는 윤리학적 범주와 범주 사이의 상호 관계는 기본적으로 공자의 사상체계와 밀접한 관계가 있다. 맹자는 공자(孔子)의 예치(禮治) 사상과 도덕정치 사상을 발전시켰으며, 인정(仁政)으로 대표되는 왕도(王道) 정치사상을 주장하였다. 특히, 맹자는 성선설을 기초로 유가 인성론의 기초를 세웠으며, 그의 성선설은 후에 대다수의 유학자들에 의해 수용됨으로써 커다란 영향력을 발휘하게 된다. 본 연구는 성선(性善)의 확충을 위한 교수작용의 측면을 중심으로 맹자의 도덕교육론을 살펴보고자 한다. 교수작용은 교사 중심의 가치전수를 의미하며, 교육목표와 교육내용을 어떠한 방법을 통해 피교육자에게 의미 있게 전달할 것인가의 문제가 주된 쟁점이 된다. 맹자가 제시한 교수작용으로서의 교육방법인 (...) 교육적 표준을 세우기, 강의의 요점을 전달하기, 학생의 소질과 여건을 파악하기, 학생의 자발성을 독려하기 등은 인간의 본성이 선하다는 성선설을 기초로 하고 있으며, 인간성 회복을 통한 이상적인 인격의 형성을 목표로 하고 있다. 유가(儒家)의 교육이념은 도덕교육을 통한 전인적 인간을 길러내고자 하는데 있다. 따라서 전인적인 인간의 모습은 인(仁)과 의(義)를 지닌 군자나 성인을 표방한다. 그러므로 전인교육은 인간이 교육을 통하여 도달할 수 있는 최고의 도덕적 경지를 추구하는 데에 궁극적인 지향점이 있다. (shrink)

Social movements are using education to generate critical consciousness regarding the social and environmental unsustainability of the current food system, and advocate for agroecological production. In this article, we explore results from a cross-case analysis of six social movements that are using education as a strategy to advance food sovereignty. We conducted participatory research with diverse rural and urban social movements in the United States, Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, and Mexico, which are each educating for food sovereignty. We synthesize (...) insights from critical food systems education and the political ecology of education in analyzing these cases. We compare the thematic similarities and difference between these movements’ education initiatives in terms of their emergence, initial goals, expansion and institutionalization, relationship to the state, theoretical inspirations, pedagogical approach, educational topics, approach to student research, and outcomes. Among these thematic areas, we find that student-centered research on competing forms of production is an integral way to advance critical consciousness about the food system and the political potential of agroecological alternatives. However, what counts, as success in these programs, is highly case-dependent. For engaged scholars committed to advancing education for food sovereignty, it is essential to reflect upon the lessons learned and challenges faced by these movements. (shrink)

In A Theory of Moral Education, Michael Hand homes in on a central problem of moral education and offers us a solution. Briefly put, the problem is this: There is often widespread disagreement about moral matters, even among those who have thought long and hard about them. So how is moral education possible without resorting to indoctrination? We are all aware of familiar strategies to avoid this problem, such as introducing various moral (...) systems and conflicting beliefs without taking a stand on them, encouraging students to reach their own conclusions about moral matters, or even keeping well clear of the whole subject in the first place. Unfortunately, these options are not available to anyone who sees the need for moral education and takes it that bringing about rational assent to moral standards is among its aims. Given this starting point, the fact of reasonable disagreement makes it difficult to see how to avoid the problem of indoctrination. Hand’s solution is to argue that, while disagreement about moral matters is a salient feature of social life, there is a significant core of moral values about which there is actually little contention, and for which an adequate justification is within reach. Among them are “prohibitions on killing and causing harm, stealing and extorting, lying and cheating, and requirements to treat others fairly, keep one’s promises and help those in need”. With well-known caveats, there is at least general assent to these prescriptions, but their rational justification is more problematic. The history of ethical theory is littered with arguments as to why such things are wrong, but the arguments are contentious—and that looks to compound the problem. Nevertheless, Hand believes that there is at least one sound argument that can be used to justify our core moral standards. (shrink)

There are two major trends attaching importance respectively on the reason and the emotion in the history of western ethics. Martha C. Nussbaum, contemporary famous ethics professor at the university of Chicago, believing the emotion and perception take an important part in moral actions, meanwhile she holds that moral education should cultivate humanity in the sense of the reason. Is there a self-contradiction in her theory? Although Nussbaum argues that emotion has the cognitive function of guiding to (...) a moral fact, she develops the reason as the basis of morality, in which the reason is reinterpreted through the relationship of the intellectual and emotional by the Stoic and Aristotle. On one side, Nussbaum adopts the Stoics’ theory that the reason is peculiar of individual, which is in certain way relevance to the emotion. On the other side, inspired by Aristotle, she believes that the reason in ethics should be a practical wisdom, which can be used to aim to the true good in the context of multi-values. Thus the reason in Nussbaum’s moral education becomes a capability of human in modern society, which handles with the concrete matters in proper combination of the emotion and the value, the universality and the individuality. (shrink)

Anthropology, History, and Education contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, have never before been translated into English. Kant's question 'What is the human being?' is approached indirectly in his famous works on metaphysics, epistemology, moral and legal philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion, but it is approached directly in his extensive but less well-known writings on physical and cultural (...) anthropology, the philosophy of history, and education which are gathered in the present volume. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question 'What is the human being?' should be philosophy's most fundamental concern, and Anthropology, History, and Education can be seen as effectively presenting his philosophy as a whole in a popular guise. (shrink)

(2013). The Science of Applied Ethics at Edinburgh University: Dugald Stewart on Moral Education and the Auxiliary Principles of the Moral Faculty. Intellectual History Review: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 207-224. doi: 10.1080/17496977.2012.725554.

Using the history classroom as a context for ethics and moral education is a long, but also contested, tradition. Recently, more emphasis has been put on how to incorporate ethics education, with this paper exploring the spaces of ethics and moral education in the history classroom. It is argued here that insights from moral philosophy and theories of historical consciousness, but – importantly – also moral psychology and the study of moral emotions, (...) are needed to realise the potential of history teaching and learning to support ethics education. Following this line, three spaces of ethics education in the history classroom are identified in this paper, including: reasoning about the moral quality of historical actors’ conduct; the use of historical empathy ; and reflection of the past’s moral meaning to the present and the future. As an example of how to implement this, a set of stimulus activities is presented that is designed for the classroom and a qualitative analysis of students’ responses that explicate expressions of students’ moral reasoning, perspective-taking, and historical consciousness. (shrink)

Responding to increasing global anxiety over the ethics education of military personnel, this volume illustrates the depth, rigour and critical acuity of Professional Military Ethics Education (PMEE) with contributions by distinguished ethical theorists. It refreshes our thinking about the axioms of just war orthodoxy, the intellectual and political history of just war theorizing, and the justice of recent military doctrines and ventures. The volume also explores a neglected moral dimension of warfare, jus ante bellum (the ethics of (...) pre-war practices) – particularly jus in disciplina bellica (the ethics of educating for warfare). Using metaphor to exemplify the professionalization of the military, the book exposes ambivalences within military professionals' concepts of their professional responsibilities, analyzes issues of self-respect posed by service in an unjust cause, and surveys the deep conflicts inherent in PMEE. While primarily focused on US military academies, the volume will resonate with those responsible for education in military academies across the globe. (shrink)

도덕은 하나의 철학적, 심리적 상념으로서도 존재하지만, 실천으로 이어져야만 비로소 도덕으로서 역할을 할 수 있게 된다. 기본적으로 도덕이란 타자가 자신과 공존할 때, 그 타자와의 관계에서 좋음(goodness) 또는 옳음(righteousness)을 추구하는 것이기 때문이다. 그런 도덕이란 대부분 본능적으로 체득할 수 없기에 도덕교육이 있게 되는데, 한국인의 경우 서구와 다른 도덕적 전통을 갖고 있으며 따라서 서구적 도덕교육으로 충분하지 않거나, 전통적 도덕교육을 활용함으로써 더 나은 교육이 이루어질 수 있는 가능성을 찾을 수 있다. 그런 견지에서 전통의 실천적 의미를 재해석하고 활용하는 일은 한 편의 논문으로는 너무 방대한 과제이다. 그래서 (...) 이 글에서는 비교와 범주화, 그리고 활용의 편의를 위해 전통을 ‘근세 유교(조선왕조 이후의 유교) 전통’으로 한정짓고, 다시 도덕교육 가운데 현행 도덕과교육의 교육과정을 전통 교육과정과 비교함으로써 일정한 성과를 얻고자 하였다. 전통 교육과정은 기(氣)의 발달에 근거하여 연령별로 단계별 학습을 시도했으며, 그 핵심 이념은 인(仁)과 의(義), 실천적 덕목은 효(孝), 제(弟), 자(慈), 직(直), 근(勤), 검(儉)이라고 정리해볼 수 있다. 여기서는 그러한 전통 교육 이념이 ‘자신과의 관계’, ‘타인과의 관계’, ‘사회 공동체와의 관계’, ‘자연·초월과의 관계’로 영역을 나누고 각기 지향할 가치, 실천할 덕목을 배정한 현 도덕과교육의 체계와 상통할 수 있다고 보고, 그에 따라 교육 현장에서 실천할 몇 가지 전통-현대 융합적 교육 방안들을 제안하였다. (shrink)

본 연구는 자율성에 대한 자기통제와 외부영향력으로부터의 독립의 두 준거에 근거하여, 도덕교육 내에 다양한 자율성 개념들을 분석하고, 도덕교육 연구의 과제로서 통합적 덕 교육의 고유한 자율관 정립을 주장하였다. 자율성은 소극적 자유와 적극적 자유의 양 측면을 가지고 있기에, 외부영향력으로부터의 독립뿐 아니라 자기통제를 요구한다. 도덕성 발달이론의 이론적 실천적 한계가 밝혀지며, 외부 영향력으로부터의 독립에 기운 콜버그의 자율성 개념역시 비판하는 대안적 자율관에 대한 연구들이 대두했다. 도덕교육 담론내의 자율관의 다양성은 엄연한 현실이지만 대안적 도덕 교육론을 모색할 때면 간과되어왔다. 자율적 접근의 도덕교육 이론은 물론 사회화 중심의 도덕교육이론들을 통합하려는 노력의 (...) 결과로서 통합적 덕 교육론이 등장하였으나, 콜버그의 자율성 개념의 발달을 지향하는 논의를 전개할 뿐 독자적 자율관 정립을 위한 노력이 거의 이루어지고 있지 않다. 통합적 접근이 독자적 이론으로서 완성되기 위해서 그리고 교육의 실제에서 실효를 거두기 위해서는, 통합적 특성을 반영한 자율관이 정립되어야 한다. (shrink)

Anthropology, History, and Education, first published in 2007, contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, had never before been translated into English. Kant's question 'What is the human being?' is approached indirectly in his famous works on metaphysics, epistemology, moral and legal philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion, but it is approached directly in his extensive but less well-known writings (...) on physical and cultural anthropology, the philosophy of history, and education which are gathered in the present volume. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question 'What is the human being?' should be philosophy's most fundamental concern, and Anthropology, History, and Education can be seen as effectively presenting his philosophy as a whole in a popular guise. (shrink)

Macau, as a society, is a crossroads where East–West encounters have been taking place for centuries. This paper examines some of the contemporary issues and implications for moral education. After a brief introduction to the social background of Macau, the paper describes the characteristics of Macau's education in general and the development of its moral education in particular. This has taken place in the context of the strong influences on morality of both Catholicism and Confucianism. (...) An outline of the current curriculum of moral and civic education is followed by a critical appraisal of its implementation over the last few years. By means of this case study of Macau, the paper argues that a communitarian‐oriented morality in Macau is justified, and it also suggests how, by turning attention to its history, a minimal set of values can be constructed for Macau's particular social setting. Finally, some further educational challenges for Macau's future moral and civic education are reviewed. (shrink)

Dugald Stewart is usually thought of as the final major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. But though his name is a recognisable one among intellectual historians, few would probably be able to...

본 연구는 사회⋅정서적 학습 이론(the social and emotional learning, SEL)에 근거를 두고 초등 도덕교육의 목표인 초등학생들의 “바르고 선한 인성(character)”을 어떻게 하면 보다 효과적으로 함양할 것인가? 의 물음에 답하기 위해, 사회⋅정서적 능력 중에서도 특히 사회적 인식(social awareness) 및 대인 관계 기술(relationship skill) 함양에 초점을 두고 탐구하였다. 본 연구가 SEL에 토대를 두고자 하는 이유는 초등학생들의 도덕성 발달이란 도덕적 지식(앎)의 발달만으로 가능하지 않고, 도덕적 지식을 행동으로 옮기는데 있어 중요한 가교의 역할(예를 들면, 자동차가 움직이기 위해 연료가 필수적이듯이 일종의 도덕적 에너지의 역할)을 하고 있는 사회⋅정서적 (...) 능력의 발달이 병행될 때 가능한 바, 그동안 우리나라 도덕교육에서는 이러한 사회⋅정서적 능력 혹은 도덕적 감정의 필요성에 대해 강조하면서도 이를 어떻게 하면 효과적으로 교육할 것인가에 대해 구체적인 실천 방안 마련이 미흡하였기 때문이다. 초등학생들의 사회 인식 및 대인 관계 능력 함양의 모색은 도덕과 수업을 통한 방안과 도덕과 수업 이외의 활동을 통한 방안을 중심으로 구안하였다. (shrink)