Kiss / Euben Debating Moral Education

Rethinking the Role of the Modern University
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9159-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 362 Seiten

Collection of essays that consider the role of ethics in the university.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kiss, Elizabeth

Euben, J. Peter

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pickus, Noah

Reuben, Julie A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / Noah Pickus ix

Acknowledgments xiii

I. Introduction: Why the Return to Ethics? Why Now? 1

1. Debating Moral Education: An Introduction / Elizabeth Kiss and J. Peter Euben 3

2. The Changing Contours of Moral Education in American Colleges and Universities / Julie Reuben 27

II. What Are Universities For? 55

3. Aim High: A Response to Stanley Fish / Elizabeth Kiss and J. Peter Euben 57

4. I Know It When I See It: A Reply to Kiss and Euben / Stanley Fish 76

5. The Pathos of the University: The Case of Stanley Fish / Stanley Hauerwas 92

6. On the Distribution of Moral Badges: A Few Worries / Elizabeth V. Spelman 111

III. The Politics and Ethics of Higher Education 123

7. Pluralism and the Education of the Spirit / Wilson Carey McWilliams and Susan McWilliams 125

8. Multiculturalism and Moral Education / Lawrence Blum 140

9. Against Civic Education / James Bernard Murphy 162

10. Education, Independence, and Acknowledgment / Patchen Markell 186

11. The Power of Morality / George Shulman 206

12. Hunger, Ethics, and the University: A Radical Democratic Goad in Ten Pieces / Romand Coles 223

IV. Which Virtues? Whose Character? 247

13. Is There an Ethicist in the House? How Can We Tell? / David A. Hoekema 249

14. The Possibility of Moral Education in the University Today / J. Donald Moon 267

15. Is a Humanistic Education Humanizing? / Ruth W. Grant 286

16. Players and Spectators: Sports and Ethical Training in the American University / Michael Allen Gillespie 293

Bibliography 317

Contributors 337

Index 341

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Kiss is President of Agnes Scott College.J. Peter Euben is Professor of Political Science, Research Professor of Classical Studies, and Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Ethics at Duke University. He is the author of Platonic Noise, Corrupting Youth, and The Tragedy of Political Theory, and an editor of Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Democracy.