Education as Soulcraft: Exemplary Intellectual Practice and the Cardinal Virtues

Studies in Christian Ethics 23 (3):249-266 (2010)
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Abstract

Gilbert Meilaender argues that universities should eschew efforts to improve students’ moral character. I show that Meilaender’s arguments fail to offer any cogent reason for shunning university-based moral education. I then look to Thomas Aquinas in order to explain the connection between moral virtue and the practices common in university life. Using Aquinas as a guide, I argue that exemplary intellectual practice requires virtues that are subsidiary habits of the cardinal moral virtues themselves. The implication of this argument is as follows: students require scrupulous moral training if they are to engage in exemplary intellectual practice

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