Autonomous moral education is Socratic moral education: The Import of repeated activity in moral education out of evil and into virtue

Educational Philosophy and Theory 51 (13):1327-1338 (2018)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Kant’s commitment to autonomy raises difficult questions about the very possibility of Kantian moral education, since appeal to external pedagogical guidance threatens to be in contradiction with autonomous virtue. Furthermore, moral education seems to involve getting good at something through repetition; but Kant seems to eschew the notion of repeated natural activity as antithetical to autonomy. Things become even trickier once we remember that Kant also views autonomous human beings as radically evil: we are capable of choosing rationally and autonomously, but, left to our own devices, that same capacity for reason might tempt us to choose only out of a concern to satisfy our happiness. We thus need a moral education which realizes autonomy while dodging the dual bullets of external natural forces and internal evil forces. Ultimately, his concerns about external natural forces and internal evil forces do not lead Kant to reject either moral education or a role for repeated activity in it. Rathe...

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 83,890

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Virtue ethics and moral education.David Carr & Jan Steutel (eds.) - 1999 - New York: Routledge.
Is Virtue Teachable? A Socratic View of Moral Education.Jill Paulette Gordon - 1991 - Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin
Is the virtue approach to moral education viable in a plural society?Katsushige Katayama - 2003 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 37 (2):325–338.
The virtue approach to moral education: Some conceptual clarifications.Jan W. Steutel - 1997 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 31 (3):395–407.
Philosophy and moral (and political) education.Alan Montefiore - 1979 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 13 (1):21–32.
Self-doubt: One Moral of the Story.Susan Verducci - 2014 - Studies in Philosophy and Education 33 (6):609-620.
Scripting Situations in Moral Education.Deborah S. Mower - 2010 - Teaching Ethics 11 (1):93-106.
Changes and challenges for moral education in Taiwan.Angela Lee - 2004 - Journal of Moral Education 33 (4):575-595.

Analytics

Added to PP
2018-06-21

Downloads
20 (#596,915)

6 months
1 (#505,949)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Jeanine Grenberg
St. Olaf College

Citations of this work

The Moral Philosophy of Maria Montessori.Patrick Frierson - 2021 - Journal of the American Philosophical Association 7 (2):133-154.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references