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ERIC Number: EJ1075020
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Aug
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0309-8249
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An Aristotelian Model of Moral Development
Sanderse, Wouter
Journal of Philosophy of Education, v49 n3 p382-398 Aug 2015
Despite the Aristotelian renaissance in the philosophy of education, the development of virtue has not received much attention. This is unfortunate, because an attempt to draft an Aristotelian model of moral development can help philosophers to evaluate the contribution Aristotelian virtue ethics can make to our understanding of moral development, provide psychologists with a potentially richer account of morality and its development, and help educators to understand the developmental phase people are in. In the article, it is argued that the Aristotelian categories of the "morally indifferent", "un-self-controlled", "self-controlled" and "properly virtuous" can be interpreted as the successive stages or levels of a comprehensive developmental model. For each stage, it will be made clear whether people are committed to virtue, whether they act virtuously or not, whether they act with pleasure or pain, and which desires and reasons they have for acting. The article closes with suggestions about what needs to be done if the proposed Aristotelian account of moral development is to become psychologically more realistic and educationally useful.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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