The Practical Wisdom of Phronesis in the Education of Purported Virtuous Character
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21314538 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Carr (0000-0003-0671-0719, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 137-152 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-2004 • E-ISSN: 1741-5446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/edth.12570 |
| OpenAlex | W4381939392 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In the context of the recent revival of virtue ethics, the notion of character formation under the rational guidance of Aristotle's notion of phronesis , or practical wisdom, has been exalted as the principal aim of moral education. However, this is not unproblematic insofar as the promotion of Aristotelian phronesis seems to operate on rather different levels or to be ambivalent between the two rather different (and demonstrably separable) aims or goals of fostering reasonably sound deliberation and judgment concerning “right” or good (moral or other) agency or action and the allegedly optimal (empirical) psychological ordering of cognition and affect to the end of good or commendable human character. In this paper, David Carr argues that while the first of these aims is by and large educationally acceptable and defensible, the second is neither a desirable nor coherent educational goal
Action (physics) · Ambivalence · Character (mathematics) · Context (archaeology) · Deliberation · Epistemology · Higher education · Judgement · Moral character · Philosophy of education · Phronesis · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Virtue · Virtue ethics · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |