
Offering A Variety Of Perspectives On Some Of The Most Fundamental Questions About Moral Education The Volume Is Written In The Belief That Philosophy Has An Important Contribution To Make In Bringing About A Clearer Understanding Of The Task Of Moral Education. There Is An International Team Of Contributors Including Both Philosophers And Educationalists. These Include; David Best, Brian Crittenden, Paul Hirst, Ruth Jonathon, John Kekes, Will Kymlicka, Alasdair Macintyre And Amelie Oksenberg Rorty. Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. The Nature Of Morality And Moral Education -- 1. Morality As An Educational Institution -- 2. Cross Questions And Crooked Answers -- Part Ii. Rationality, Society And The Morally Educated Person -- 3. Moral Education In A Pluralist Liberal Democracy -- 4. Agency And Contingency In Moral Development And Education -- 5. Education For Citizenship -- Part Iii. Virtues, Practices And The Education Of Character -- 6. The Demands Of Moral Education -- 7. How To Seem Virtuous Without Actually Being So -- 8. Education In Character And Virtue -- Part Iv. Pluralism, Postmodernism And Moral Education -- 9. Pluralism, Moral Imagination And Moral Education -- 10. Postmodernism And The Education Of Character -- 11. Against Relativism -- 12. The Arts, Morality And Postmodernism -- Part V. Moral Motivation -- 13. 'behaving Morally As A Point Of Principle' -- 14. Weakness, Wants And The Will -- Index.
Page Count:
288
Publication Date:
2005-01-01
ISBN-10:
0203981189
ISBN-13:
9780203981184
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