1st Edition

Virtue Ethics and Moral Education

Edited By David Carr, Jan Steutel Copyright 1999
    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    282 Pages
    by Routledge

    This collection of original essays on virtue ethics and moral education seeks to fill this gap in the recent literature of moral education, combining broader analyses with detailed coverage of:
    * the varieties of virtue
    * weakness and integrity
    * relativism and rival traditions
    * means and methods of educating the virtues
    The rare collaboration of professional ethical theorists and educational philosophers provides a ground-breaking work and an exciting new focus in a growing area of research.

    Biography

    David Carr is Reader in the Faculty of Education at the University of Edinburgh. He is editor of Education, Knowledge and Truth (Routledge 1998) and is writing a book on Ethical Issues in Teaching (forthcoming with Routledge).,
    Jan Steutel is Reader in Philosophy of Education at the Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    `The book should be of interest in the intended way because it successfully joins educational philosophy to moral philosophy, and does so without artifice.' - Jonathon Jacobs, Journal of Moral Education

    `This is a good book.' - journal of Moral Education

    `the authors' knowledge of the social scientific and psychological literature gives their discussions a kind of traction that philosophical debates often lack' - Journal of Moral Education

    'These essays will be valuable tools for lecturers in Ethics and Moral Education to explore the implications for the education establishment and beyond. - Caroline Hancock, Trinity College, Carmarthen, UK