Virtue Ethics and Moral Education [Hardcover]

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.This book takes a major step in the philosophy of education by moving back past the Enlightenment to reinstate Artistotelian Virtue at the heart of moral education.`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, UKPart 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Virtue Ethics and the Virtue Approach to Moral Education, Jan Steutel, David Carr; Part 2 General Issues; Chapter 2 Virtue, Eudaimonia and Teleological Ethics, Nicholas Dent; Chapter 3 Character Development and Aristotelian Virtue, Nancy Sherman; Chapter 4 Virtue, Phronesis and Learning, Joseph Dunne; Part 3 Varieties of Virtue; Chapter 5 Cultivating thls/