ABSTRACT

Offering a variety of perspectives on some of the most fundamental questions about moral education the volume is written in the belief that philosophy has an important contribution to make in bringing about a clearer understanding of the task of moral education. There is an international team of contributors including both philosophers and educationalists. These include; David Best, Brian Crittenden, Paul Hirst, Ruth Jonathon, John Kekes, Will Kymlicka, Alasdair MacIntyre and Amelie Oksenberg Rorty.

chapter |4 pages

INTRODUCTION

part |2 pages

Part I THE NATURE OF MORALITY AND MORAL EDUCATION

part |2 pages

Part II RATIONALITY, SOCIETY AND THE MORALLY EDUCATED PERSON

chapter 5|26 pages

EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP

chapter 6|13 pages

THE DEMANDS OF MORAL EDUCATION

Reason, virtues, practices Pad H. Hirst

part |2 pages

Part IV PLURALISM, POSTMODERNISM AND MORAL EDUCATION

chapter 10|34 pages

POSTMODERNISM AND THE EDUCATION OF CHARACTER

Michzel Lzlntley Moral realism and character education in a postmodern world

chapter 12|22 pages

THE ARTS, MORALITY AND POSTMODERNISM

Dauid Best Section 1: The arts and morality

part |2 pages

Part V MORAL MOTIVATION

chapter 13|17 pages

‘BEHAVING MORALLY AS A POINT OF PRINCIPLE’

A proper aim of moral education? Grubam Haydon Moral motivation

chapter 14|10 pages

WEAKNESS, WANTS AND THE WILL

Roger Straugban The gap between moral beliefs and moral conduct