Moral education as the practice of virtue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11952497 |
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| Authors | Rachel Longa (Columbia University, corresponding author), Rachel Ann Longa (Teachers College, Columbia University , 35 Fairlawn Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06605 , United States) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 724-738 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Philosophy of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8249 • E-ISSN: 1467-9752 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jopedu/qhad048 |
| OpenAlex | W4386852391 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This article proposes to reconceive moral education on the model of spiritual practice. Such an education would be defined not by its content—that is, explicit instruction about moral rules or particular virtues—but rather by the form of its constituent activities. Drawing on the works of both Plato and Foucault, the article addresses questions about the epistemic complexity of virtue raised in Mark E. Jonas and Yoshiaka Nakzawa’s A Platonic Theory of Moral Education. It then goes on to suggest that the form of spiritual practice is uniquely suited to the cultivation of virtue understood on their Platonic model
Epistemic virtue · Epistemology · Higher education · Moral education · Pedagogy · Philosophy of education · Political science · Sociology · Virtue · Virtue ethics · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Religious Education and Schools · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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