Debating Moral Education: Rethinking the Role of the Modern University

Author:   Elizabeth Kiss ,  J. Peter Euben
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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Pages:   368
Publication Date:   25 January 2010
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Author:   Elizabeth Kiss ,  J. Peter Euben
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
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ISBN:  

9780822346203


ISBN 10:   0822346206
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   25 January 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Foreword / Noah Pickus ix Acknowledgments xiii I. Introduction: Why the Return to Ethics? Why Now? 1 1. Debating Moral Education: An Introduction / Elizabeth Kiss and J. Peter Euben 3 2. The Changing Contours of Moral Education in American Colleges and Universities / Julie Reuben 27 II. What Are Universities For? 55 3. Aim High: A Response to Stanley Fish / Elizabeth Kiss and J. Peter Euben 57 4. I Know It When I See It: A Reply to Kiss and Euben / Stanley Fish 76 5. The Pathos of the University: The Case of Stanley Fish / Stanley Hauerwas 92 6. On the Distribution of Moral Badges: A Few Worries / Elizabeth V. Spelman 111 III. The Politics and Ethics of Higher Education 123 7. Pluralism and the Education of the Spirit / Wilson Carey McWilliams and Susan McWilliams 125 8. Multiculturalism and Moral Education / Lawrence Blum 140 9. Against Civic Education / James Bernard Murphy 162 10. Education, Independence, and Acknowledgment / Patchen Markell 186 11. The Power of Morality / George Shulman 206 12. Hunger, Ethics, and the University: A Radical Democratic Goad in Ten Pieces / Romand Coles 223 IV. Which Virtues? Whose Character? 247 13. Is There an Ethicist in the House? How Can We Tell? / David A. Hoekema 249 14. The Possibility of Moral Education in the University Today / J. Donald Moon 267 15. Is a Humanistic Education Humanizing? / Ruth W. Grant 286 16. Players and Spectators: Sports and Ethical Training in the American University / Michael Allen Gillespie 293 Bibliography 317 Contributors 337 Index 341

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This excellent collection of essays provides a timely and thoughtful account of the perils and prospects of moral education in our time. The contributors are prominent moral philosophers, political theorists, and civic educators whose different perspectives--some enthusiastic, others wary--make for a lively and reflective volume. The issues raised in this important book will interest and challenge students and educators in a context defined by related debates over academic freedom, intelligent design, and the ever-present culture wars. --James Farr, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University Recently colleges and universities that had for many years distanced themselves from their students' growth as moral agents have begun taking this aspect of higher education very seriously. In this book educators will find the issues laid out with admirable clarity and the fresh ideas and approaches they need to do the work well. --W. Robert Connor, Professor of Classics, Emeritus, Princeton University Some of the best scholars in the field engage in the contemporary debate over the nature and scope of moral education, especially in American universities. Anyone wishing to trace this complex but fascinating discussion would do well to read Debating Moral Education. --Terence Ball, Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University


Recently colleges and universities that had for many years distanced themselves from their students' growth as moral agents have begun taking this aspect of higher education very seriously. In this book they will find the issues laid out with admirable clarity and the fresh ideas and approaches they need to do the work well. -W. Robert Connor, Professor of Classics, Emeritus, Princeton University Some of the best scholars in the field engage in the contemporary debate over the nature and scope of moral education, especially in American universities. Anyone wishing to trace this complex but fascinating debate would do well to read Debating Moral Education. -Terence Ball, author of Reappraising Political Theory This excellent collection of essays provides a timely and thoughtful account of the perils and prospects of moral education in our time. The contributors are prominent moral philosophers, political theorists, and civic educators whose different perspectives-some enthusiastic, others wary-make for a lively and reflective volume. The issues raised in this important book will interest and challenge students and educators in a context defined by related debates over academic freedom, intelligent design, and the ever-present culture wars. -James Farr, University of Minnesota


"""This excellent collection of essays provides a timely and thoughtful account of the perils and prospects of moral education in our time. The contributors are prominent moral philosophers, political theorists, and civic educators whose different perspectives--some enthusiastic, others wary--make for a lively and reflective volume. The issues raised in this important book will interest and challenge students and educators in a context defined by related debates over academic freedom, intelligent design, and the ever-present culture wars.""--James Farr, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University ""Recently colleges and universities that had for many years distanced themselves from their students' growth as moral agents have begun taking this aspect of higher education very seriously. In this book educators will find the issues laid out with admirable clarity and the fresh ideas and approaches they need to do the work well.""--W. Robert Connor, Professor of Classics, Emeritus, Princeton University ""Some of the best scholars in the field engage in the contemporary debate over the nature and scope of moral education, especially in American universities. Anyone wishing to trace this complex but fascinating discussion would do well to read Debating Moral Education.""--Terence Ball, Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University"


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Elizabeth Kiss is President of Agnes Scott College. J. Peter Euben is Professor of Political Science, Research Professor of Classical Studies, and Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Ethics at Duke University. He is the author of Platonic Noise, Corrupting Youth, and The Tragedy of Political Theory, and an editor of Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Democracy.

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