Formation of the Moral Self

by Van Der Ven, Johannes A.

• ISBN13: 9780802844392
• ISBN10: 0802844391
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

The inaugural volume in the Studies In Practical Theology series, Formation of the Moral Self provides a foundational understanding of the process of moral development and the structures of education that help initiate it. Johannes van der Ven here distinguishes between two modes of informal moral education (discipline and socialization) and fives modes of formal education (transmission, development, clarification, emotional formation, and character formation). He argues that the common denominator of all seven modes is "moral communication, " which can be defined as the ongoing process of moral exchange and understanding in the search for truth -- a search that leads to nothing less than the successful formation of the moral self.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	ix	(2)
Preface	xi
1. Introduction: Modes in Moral Education	1	(42)
1.1 Morality	2	(8)
Purposive, Good, and Right	3	(6)
Good, Right, and Wise	9	(1)
Moral Criteria and Moral Traditions	9	(1)
1.2 Religion	10	(11)
Religion as Text	13	(5)
Premoral, Radical-Moral, and Metamoral Aspects of Religion	18	(3)
1.3 Education	21	(22)
Interactionism as an Educational Paradigm	21	(9)
Moral Communication as the Common Denominator	30	(5)
Seven Modes in Moral Education	35	(8)
2. Discipline	43	(38)
2.1 Discipline in Early Childhood	48	(8)
Discipline	49	(3)
Habituation	52	(3)
Self-Regulation	55	(1)
2.2 Discipline and Self-Regulation	56	(6)
Three Functions of Self-Regulation	57	(3)
Self-Regulation and Discipline	60	(2)
2.3 The Spirit of Discipline	62	(19)
Durkheim's Spirit of Discipline	62	(3)
The Spirit of Communitarianism	65	(2)
The Spirit of Multiculturalism	67	(9)
The Spirit of Wisdom	76	(5)
3. Socialization	81	(44)
3.1 Socialization and Internalization	85	(5)
Primary and Secondary Socialization	87	(2)
Socialization and Institutionalization	89	(1)
3.2 Socialization of the Dialogical Self	90	(19)
The Macrolevel of Society	91	(7)
The Mesolevel of Interaction	98	(4)
The Microlevel of the Individual	102	(6)
The Importance of the Dialogical Self	108	(1)
3.3 Socialization of the Moral Self	109	(16)
The Morality of the Dialogical Self	110	(2)
Values and Norms in a Moral Perspective	112	(2)
Moral Conflicts	114	(5)
Choices in a Moral Perspective	119	(2)
Compromises in a Moral Perspective	121	(4)
4. Transmission	125	(56)
4.1 Moral Plurality	128	(8)
The Content of Traditional Transmission	129	(2)
The Aims of Traditional Transmission	131	(3)
Moral Plurality and the Limits of Traditional Transmission	134	(2)
4.2 Moral Rationality	136	(18)
Substantive and Procedural Rationality	137	(10)
Theoretical and Practical Rationality	147	(7)
4.3 Moral Complementarity	154	(27)
First Stage: Searching for the Good Life	155	(6)
Second Stage: The Critical Tests	161	(8)
Third Stage: Phronesis	169	(7)
Moral Complementarity in Transmission	176	(5)
5. Development	181	(54)
5.1 Stages of Moral Development	186	(13)
Moral Types and Moral Stages	186	(3)
Cognitive, Affective, Social, Moral, and Religious Development	189	(10)
5.2 Whose Justice? Why Justice?	199	(24)
Justice	200	(2)
Stages of Justice Reasoning	202	(3)
Whose Justice?	205	(4)
Why Justice?	209	(7)
Justice and Love in the Christian Religion	216	(7)
5.3 Development Revised	223	(12)
Conventional Morality	223	(4)
Convention-Critical Reflection	227	(6)
Premoral Aspects of Social Development	233	(2)
6. Clarification	235	(48)
6.1 Consistency in Value Clarification	240	(17)
Valuing and Clarifying	240	(15)
Future Development of Value Clarification	255	(2)
6.2 Clarification as a Hermeneutical Process	257	(9)
Hermeneutical Criteria	259	(2)
Hermeneutics of the Good	261	(1)
Moral Authority	262	(4)
6.3 Clarification as a Communicative Process	266	(17)
Models of Communication between Multicultural Moral Traditions	266	(12)
Clarification in a Multicultural Context	278	(5)
7. Emotional Formation	283	(56)
7.1 Emotions	287	(14)
Traditional Emotion Theories	288	(6)
The Cognitive Interaction Theory of Emotions	294	(7)
7.2 Emotions from a Moral Perspective	301	(30)
Patterns of Managing Emotions	302	(6)
Emotional Development	308	(1)
Ego-Identity	309	(1)
Basic Trust	310	(3)
Empathy and Sympathy	313	(2)
Sense of Justice	315	(3)
Shame and Guilt	318	(5)
Sex and Love	323	(8)
7.3 Emotional Learning	331	(8)
By Observation	332	(1)
By Experience	333	(2)
By Concept	335	(4)
8. Education for Character	339	(48)
8.1 Character	346	(19)
The Structure of Character	346	(8)
An Interactive Framework for Character	354	(4)
A Narrative Account of Character	358	(2)
A Tragic Interpretation of Character	360	(5)
8.2 Good Character from the Last Judgment	365	(14)
The First-Person Perspective	368	(3)
The Second-Person Perspective	371	(4)
The Third-Person Perspective	375	(4)
8.3 Character Formation	379	(8)
Moral Salience	380	(1)
Moral Passions, Reasons, and Goods	381	(2)
Virtues	383	(1)
Narration	384	(3)
Literature	387	(20)
Index	407