Passionate Utterance and Moral Education

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ID11951529
AutoresIan Munday (University of Cambridge, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume43
Fascículo1
Páginas57-74
Data de publicação2009-01-26
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Philosophy of Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0309-8249 • E-ISSN: 1467-9752
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9752.2009.00670.x
OpenAlexW2095329371
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas5

This paper explores Stanley Cavell's notion of 'passionate utterance', which acts as an extension of/departure from (we might read it as both) J. L. Austin's theory of the performative. Cavell argues that Austin having made the revolutionary discovery that truth claims in language are bound up with how words perform, then gets bogged by convention when discussing what is done 'by' words. In failing to account for the less predictable, unconventional aspects of language, the latter therefore washes his hands of the expressive passionate aspects of speech. To ignore such aspects is to ignore an important moral dimension of language. Finally, I bring Cavell's approach to bear on the epistemic criterion, which Michael Hand applies in his paper 'Should We Teach Homosexuality as a Controversial Issue?'. I suggest that Hand's approach, by failing to account for the linguistic dimension of truth and the expressive quality that accompanies this dimension, presents an overly narrow conception of moral education

Epistemology · Linguistics · Media studies · Moral philosophy · Sociology · Utterance · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Samuel Beckett and Modernism · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications