Virtue, Reason, and the False Public Voice

Catharine Macaulay's Philosophy of Moral Education

Bibliographic Data

ID8858920
AuthorsConnie Titone (Villanova University, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume41
Issue1
Pages91-108
Publication date2007-06-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1469-5812.2007.00365.x
OpenAlexW2002230819
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited5

Catharine Macaulay, an 18th century English historian, published her educational philosophy in Letters on Education with Observations on Religious and Metaphysical Subjects in 1790. The ultimate goal of her educational process, to ‘bring the human mind to such a height of perfection as shall induce the practice of the best morals’, (, p. 173) is examined in this paper. Her ideas about the interactions among benevolence, sympathy, reason and the public voice with regard to the education of the moral, virtuous person are considered. Macaulay's suggestions regarding the benefits of a specific curriculum and pedagogy in developing students capable of filtering the limiting dictates of society and aspiring toward virtue are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the tensions her suggestions embody for the ideal, co‐educational classroom

Curriculum · Epistemology · Higher education · Ideal (ethics · Limiting · Metaphysics · Pedagogy · Perfection · Philosophy of education · Political science · Sociology · Sympathy · Virtue · Catholicism and Religious Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religious Education and Schools · Social Psychology

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