Dewey's conception of "Virtue" and its implications for moral education

Educational Theory

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 269-282

  Rice, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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EID: 0347284908     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.1996.00269.x     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. See, for example, Thomas Lickona, Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility (New York: Bantam, 1991)
2. Betty A. Sichel, Moral Education: Character, Community and Ideas (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988)
3. Robert T. Sandin, The Rehabilitation of Virtue: Foundations of Moral Education (New York: Fraeger, 1992)
4. Nancy Sherman, The Fabric of Character: Aristotle's Theory of Virtue (Oxford: Clarendon, 1989)
5. David T. Hansen, "The Emergence of a Shared Morality in a Classroom" Curriculum Inquiry 22 (1992): 345-61.
6. M.F. Bumyeat, "Aristotle on Learning to be Good," Essays on Aristotle's Ethics, ed. Amelie Oksenberg Rorty (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980)
7. James Q. Wilson, The Moral Sense (New York: Free Press, 1993).
8. This explanation for the current interest in virtue has been offered by both Martha C. Nussbaum, "Non-Relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach Midwest Studies in Philosophy XIII (1988): 32-52.
9. David Carr, Educating the Virtues (New York: Routledge, 1991).
10. "Virtue" was featured not only on the cover of Newsweek, but also in a week-long series of Gary Trudeau's cartoon, "Doonesbury"; "The Politics of Virtue: The Crusade Against America's Moral Decline,"Newsweek 13 June 1994
11. William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993)
12. William J. Bennett, The Moral Compass: Stones for a Life's Journey (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995).
13. In particular, see, , The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986)Martha Nussbaum
14. Alasdair Maclntyre, After Virtue (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984
15. Bernard Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985).
16. For a description of several such programs see, for example, Jacques S. Benninga, ed., Moral Character, and Civic Education in the Elementary School (New York: Teachers College Press, 1991).
17. An important exception is found in Sichel, Moral Education;
18. J.J. Chambliss, "Common Ground in Aristotle's and Dewey's Theories of Conduct," Educational Theory 43, no. 2 (Spring 1993): 249-60.
19. Nussbaum, "Non-Relative Virtues" MacIntyre, After Virtue.
20. Elizabeth Flower and Murray G. Murphey, A History of Philosophy in America, 2 (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977), 812.
21. John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct, in The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-ed. Jo Ann Boydston (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1988). This work will be referred to as HNC with page numbers in the text for all subsequent citations.1924 14
22. John Dewey, Theory of the Moral Life (New York: Irvington, 1960)13. This book will be referred to as TML with page numbers in the text for all subsequent citations.
23. For a contemporary criticism of this view see, for example, Mary S. Leach, "Can We Talk? A Response to Burbules and Rice," Harvard Educational Review 62, no. 2 (Summer 1992): 257-63.
24. John Dewey, "Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics" in The Early Works, of John Dewey, 1889-1898, ed. Jo Ann Boydston (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969), 383.3
25. Sara Ruddick, Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace (New York: Ballantine, 1989).
26. Nussbaum, "Non-Relative Virtues," 32-52
27. Carr, Educating the Virtues, 6-7.
28. John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1957), 174.
29. John Dewey, The Study of Ethics: A Syllabus (Ann Arbor, Mich.: George Wahr, 1897), 137.
30. Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct, 6.
31. John Dewey, "Outlines of a Critical Theory of Ethics," 386.
32. Dewey, The Study of Ethics, 138-39
33. Dewey, Democracy and Education (New York: The Free Press, 1944), 358
34. Dewey, Theory of the Moral Life, 115. Democracy and Education will be referred to as DE with page numbers in the text for all subsequent citations.
35. Amelie O. Rorty, "Virtues and the Vicissitudes," Midwest Studies in Philosophy XIII (1988): 142.
36. Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy, 163-64.
37. John Dewey, Experience and Education (New York: Mactnillan, 1963), 45.
38. John Dewey, The School and Society (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956), 132-33. This work provides several descriptions of occupations, as does John Dewey and Evelyn Dewey, "Schools of Tomorrow," in The Middle Works of John Dewey (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1915), 383.
39. Contemporary writers endorsing this approach include Bennett in The Book of Virtue and The Children's Book of Virtues (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995) and Nussbaum in The Fragility of Goodness.