ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book elicits the value-addedness of an Aristotelian form of character education. It expresses that the commonest misgivings about character education, Aristotelian or otherwise comes across in the media and in political discourse are based on myths that admit of relatively easy responses. The book acknowledges the necessity of saying something more about education for phronesis than simply repeating Aristotelian truisms. It then expresses that self-constitution is, according to Aristotelianism, partly dialogical, the method of moral dialogue will constitute part and parcel of any standard staples of Aristotelian character education, rather than being just a Socratic add-on. The character education presented by Carr is most usefully worked out through an Aristotelian lens, albeit one of self-styled and reconstructed rather than orthodox Aristotelianism. The book affirms the need to take the problem of measuring virtue and character in Aristotelian character education seriously.
