Values, Virtues and Violence: Education and the Public Understanding of Morality

by Haydon, Graham

• ISBN13: 9780631215325
• ISBN10: 0631215328
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

The recent burgeoning of interest in moral education and citizenship education, together with philosophical considerations of morality, form the background to this volume. It takes us a long way from some of the older approaches to moral education which saw children's moral universe rather in terms of overdue library books or inconsiderate treatment of siblings, and explains in what sense rules and principles are properly at the heart of morality and moral education and in what sense they are not.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	ix
Violence and the Demand for Moral Education	1	(10)
The Popular Equation	1	(2)
The Case Against	3	(3)
On Not Defining One's Terms at the Beginning	6	(3)
How to Proceed	9	(2)
Right, Wrong and Murder	11	(14)
Philosophy of Education and Violence	11	(2)
Teaching Right and Wrong	13	(4)
Thinking About the `Unthinkable'	17	(8)
From Values to Morality	25	(8)
Doubts About Morality	25	(1)
The SCAA Forum	26	(3)
Development: Moral and Spiritual Contrasted	29	(4)
Morality in the Narrow Sense	33	(12)
Morality and Law	33	(4)
Morality and the Wider Ethical Sphere	37	(2)
Criticisms of a Narrow Notion of Morality	39	(6)
The Language(s) of Virtues	45	(10)
Can Morality(n) Use a Language of Virtues?	45	(4)
A Thin Language of Virtues	49	(1)
Three Kinds of Thickness	50	(2)
Virtues and Public Agreement	52	(3)
Virtue-talk about Violence	55	(10)
Violence and Character	55	(2)
Relativity of Virtues	57	(1)
Why Non-Violence is not a Virtue	58	(3)
Different Evaluations	61	(4)
Is there Virtue in Anger?	65	(10)
Unavoidable Virtue-Talk	65	(3)
On Being Peaceable and Good-Tempered	68	(2)
Anger and Judgement	70	(5)
What is Wrong with Rules?	75	(12)
Objections to Moral Rules	75	(2)
Absolute, Unchanging and Universal?	77	(2)
Rules and Reasons	79	(1)
Regulation and Constitutive	80	(3)
Rules and Understanding	83	(4)
Rules and Reasoning	87	(14)
More Objections to Rules	87	(2)
Guidelines for Moral Reasoning	89	(2)
How Rules and Principles Can Work	91	(4)
The Pervasiveness of Morality	95	(1)
Rules and Virtues	96	(5)
The Public Role of Moral Norms	101	(14)
Rules in Moral Education	101	(3)
Criticism	104	(2)
Norms, Rules and Principles	106	(3)
Are There Absolutes After All?	109	(1)
Principles in Public Discourse	110	(5)
Moral Motivation	115	(14)
Motivation in Law and Morality (n)	115	(3)
Variation of Ethical Motivation	118	(1)
The Case for a Specifically Moral Motivation	119	(1)
Language and Psychology	120	(4)
Schooling and Moral Language	124	(5)
Moral Authority	129	(12)
Melanie Phillips and the Nazis	129	(3)
Kinds of Authority	132	(3)
The Analogy with Law Again	135	(6)
Consensus, Criticism and Change	141	(12)
The Need for an Institutional Basis	141	(4)
Criticism of Norms	145	(3)
The Role of Teachers	148	(5)
The Content of Morality (n)	153	(12)
Beyond the Minimum	153	(1)
A British Morality?	154	(3)
Only Human?	157	(1)
A Minimal Morality?	158	(1)
Norms About Violence	159	(6)
The Moral Development of Society	165	(10)
Interpretations of the Development of Society	166	(1)
The Ideas of the Spiritual and Moral Development of Society	167	(2)
The Moral Development of Society	169	(6)
Bibliography	175	(6)
Index	181