Virtues and Virtue Education in Theory and Practice: Are Virtues Local or Universal?

ISBN-13: 9780367356491 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 250 str.

Catherine A. Darnell; Kristján Kristjánsson

Opis

This book explores questions about the locality versus the universality of virtues from a number of theoretical and practical perspectives.

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Introduction to the Volume  Section One: Philosophical Issues  1. Moral Relativism and Virtue Christian Miller  2. Meeting the Challenges to the Universality of Virtue Jonathan Jacobs  3. Socratic Piety and the Universality of Virtue Randall Curren  4. Evaluative Attitudes as the Motivational Structures of Ethical Virtues Jonathan Webber  5. The Essential Sociality of Aristotelian Virtue Jennifer Rothschild  6. Neo-Aristotelianism, the Universality of Virtues, and the Challenge of Germline Genome Editing Nancy E. Snow  Section Two: Psychological Issues  7. Morality as a Basic Psychological Need: Preliminary Evidence Eranda Jayawickreme, Mike Prentice & William Fleeson  8. Virtue and the Specificity Principle: An Integrative Approach to Understanding Character Elise D. Murray & Jonathan M. Tirrell  9. Diversity, Deviance, and Virtue within Imperfect Moral Communities Jennifer Cole Wright  Section Three: Practical and Educational Issues  10. Educating Virtues in a Plural World: MacIntyre, Williams and Nussbum on Moral Education James MacAllister  11. Education and Upbringing in a Superdiverse Society: On the Cultivation of the Double Gaze Doret de Ruyter  12. Between the Local and Global: Placing the Virtuous Professional Practitioner in Context Sarah Banks  13. Social Work in a Pluralistic Society—Realising the Universal Claim of Phronesis Dieter Weber & Heidrun Wulfekühler  14. Local Virtues: The Case of the Circus Ron Beadle & Angus Robson  15. Confucian Virtue Ethics and Confucian Character Education Yi-Lin Chen  Index