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ERIC Number: EJ940413
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Oct
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-2004
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Love and Ruin(s): Robert Frost on Moral Repair
Frank, Jeff
Educational Theory, v61 n5 p587-600 Oct 2011
This essay begins where Alasdair MacIntyre's "After Virtue" begins: facing a moral world in ruin. MacIntyre argues that this predicament leaves us with a choice: we can follow the path of Friedrich Nietzsche, accepting this moral destruction and attempting to create lives in a rootless, uncertain world, or the path of Aristotle, working to reclaim a world in which close-knit communities sustain human practices that make it possible for us to flourish. Jeff Frank rejects MacIntyre's framework and in this essay attempts to create an alternative path, one of moral repair. Through a close reading of several poems from Robert Frost's "North of Boston," Frank develops the notion of moral repair and describes its ethical and educational implications.
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Language: English
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