After decades of marginalization in the secularized
twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent
resurgence in American higher education, with the establishment of
more than 100 ethics centers and programs on campuses across the
country. Yet the idea that the university has a civic
responsibility to teach its undergraduate students ethics and
morality has been met with skepticism, suspicion, and even outright
rejection from both inside and outside the academy. In this
collection, renowned scholars of philosophy, politics, and religion
debate the role of ethics in the university, investigating whether
universities should proactively cultivate morality and ethics, what
teaching ethics entails, and what moral education should
accomplish. The essays quickly open up to broader questions
regarding the very purpose of a university education in modern
society.
Editors Elizabeth Kiss and J. Peter Euben survey the history of
ethics in higher education, then engage with provocative recent
writings by Stanley Fish in which he argues that universities
should not be involved in moral education. Stanley Hauerwas
responds, offering a theological perspective on the university's
purpose. Contributors look at the place of politics in moral
education; suggest that increasingly diverse, multicultural student
bodies are resources for the teaching of ethics; and show how the
debate over civic education in public grade-schools provides
valuable lessons for higher education. Others reflect on the
virtues and character traits that a moral education should foster
in students--such as honesty, tolerance, and integrity--and the
ways that ethical training formally and informally happens on
campuses today, from the classroom to the basketball court.
"Debating Moral Education" is a critical contribution to the
ongoing discussion of the role and evolution of ethics education in
the modern liberal arts university.
"Contributors." Lawrence Blum, Romand Coles, J. Peter Euben,
Stanley Fish, Michael Allen Gillespie, Ruth W. Grant, Stanley
Hauerwas, David A. Hoekema, Elizabeth Kiss, Patchen Markell, Susan
Jane McWilliams, Wilson Carey McWilliams, J. Donald Moon, James
Bernard Murphy, Noah Pickus, Julie A. Reuben, George Shulman,
Elizabeth V. Spelman
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