Sentimentalist Moral Education

Autor/in	Slote, Michael
Titel	Sentimentalist Moral Education
Quelle	In: Theory and Research in Education, 8 (2010) 2, S.125-143 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1477-8785
DOI	10.1177/1477878510368611
Schlagwörter	Ethical Instruction; Psychology; Ethics; Empathy; Moral Development; Caring; Moral Issues; Moral Values; Motivation; Social Justice; Cognitive Development; Altruism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethics instruction; Teaching of ethics; Ethikunterricht; Psychologie; Ethik; Empathie; Moralische Entwicklung; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Moraltheorie; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Kognitive Entwicklung; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus
Abstract	Care ethics, and moral sentimentalism more generally, have not developed a picture of moral education that is comparable in scope or depth to the rationalist/Kantian/Rawlsian account of moral education that has been offered by Lawrence Kohlberg. But it is possible to do so if one borrows from the work of Martin Hoffman and makes systematic use of Hume's earlier sentimentalist ideas. Kohlberg and Rawls offer accounts of moral learning that leave moral motivation largely unexplained or mysterious, but an emphasis on the psychology of empathy can help us to better understand both the content of our morality and the ways in which children and adults can become and be morally motivated. Parents can in a number of ways evoke and strengthen children's empathic moral tendencies, and such processes can also occur and need to occur in schools and later on in life. In addition, a sentimentalist understanding of the meaning of moral terms can show how moral rules, principles, and injunctions can strongly reinforce the sorts of empathic/moral tendencies that are at least initially based in other elements of human psychology. (Contains 13 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10