Debating Moral Education Rethinking the Role of the Modern University

Name: Debating Moral Education Rethinking the Role of the Modern University
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ISBN: 9780822346166

ISBN-10: 0822346168

ISBN-13: 9780822346166

Edition: 2009

Authors: Elizabeth Kiss, J. Peter Euben, Lawrence Blum, Romand Coles, Michael Gillespie

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After decades of marginalization in the secularized twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent resurgence in American higher education, with the establishment of over one hundred ethics centers and programs on campuses across the country. Yet the idea that the university has a civic responsibility to teach its undergraduate students ethics and morality has been met with skepticism, suspicion, and even outright rejection from both inside and outside the academy. In this collection, renowned scholars of philosophy, politics, and religion debate the role of ethics in the university, investigating whether universities should proactively cultivate morality and ethics, what…

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List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/25/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Why the Return to Ethics? Why Now?



Debating Moral Education: An Introduction: Elizabeth Kiss




The Changing Contours of Moral Education in American Colleges and Universities




What Are Universities For?



Aim High: A Response to Stanley Fish




I Know it When I See it: A Reply to Kiss And Euben




The Pathos of The University: The Case of Stanley Fish




On The Distribution of Moral Badges: A Few Worries




The Politics and Ethics of Higher Education



Pluralism and the Education of The Spirit




Multiculturalism and Moral Education




Against Civic Education in Schools




Education, Independence, and Acknowledgment




The Power of Morality




Hunger, Ethics, and the University: A Radical Democratic Goad in Ten Pieces




Which Virtues? Whose Character?



Is There an Ethicist in the House? How Can We Tell?




The Possibility of Moral Education in the University Today




Is Humanistic Education Humanizing?




Players and Spectators: Sports And Ethical Training in the American University



Bibliography


Contributors


Index