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ERIC Number: EJ1382641
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Apr
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0013-2004
EISSN: EISSN-1741-5446
The Practical Wisdom of "Phronesis" in the Education of Purported Virtuous Character
Carr, David
Educational Theory, v73 n2 p137-152 Apr 2023
In the context of the recent revival of virtue ethics, the notion of character formation under the rational guidance of Aristotle's notion of "phronesis," or practical wisdom, has been exalted as the principal aim of moral education. However, this is not unproblematic insofar as the promotion of Aristotelian "phronesis" seems to operate on rather different levels or to be ambivalent between the two rather different (and demonstrably separable) aims or goals of fostering reasonably sound deliberation and judgment concerning "right" or good (moral or other) agency or action and the allegedly optimal (empirical) psychological ordering of cognition and affect to the end of good or commendable human character. In this paper, David Carr argues that while the first of these aims is by and large educationally acceptable and defensible, the second is neither a desirable nor coherent educational goal.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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