Virtue Ethics and Moral Education

David Carr is Reader in the Faculty of Education at the University of Edinburgh. He is editor of Education, Knowledge and Truth (Routledge 1998) and is writing a book on Ethical Issues in Teaching (forthcoming with Routledge)., Jan Steutel is Reader in Philosophy of Education at the Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Virtue Ethics and the Virtue Approach to Moral Education, Jan Steutel, David Carr; Part 2 General Issues; Chapter 2 Virtue, Eudaimonia and Teleological Ethics, Nicholas Dent; Chapter 3 Character Development and Aristotelian Virtue, Nancy Sherman; Chapter 4 Virtue, Phronesis and Learning, Joseph Dunne; Part 3 Varieties of Virtue; Chapter 5 Cultivating the Intellectual and Moral Virtues, Randall Curren; Chapter 6 Virtues of Benevolence and Justice, James D. Wallace; Chapter 7 Self-Regarding and Other-Regarding Virtues, Michael Slote; Part 4 Weakness and Integrity; Chapter 8 Moral Growth and the Unity of the Virtues, Bonnie Kent; Chapter 9 The Virtues of Will-Power, Jan Steutel; Chapter 10 Virtue, Akrasia and Moral Weakness, David Carr; Part 5 Relativism and Revial Traditions; Chapter 11 Virtue, Truth and Relativism, John Haldane; Chapter 12 Justice, Care and Other Virtues, Paul Crittenden; Chapter 13 Liberal Virtue and Moral Enfeeblement, Eamonn Callan; Part 6 Educating the Virtues; Chapter 14 Virtues, Character, and Moral Dispositions, Joel J. Kupperman; Chapter 15 Habituation and Training in Early Moral Upbringing, Ben Spiecker; Chapter 16 Trust, Traditions and Pluralism, Kenneth A. Strike; Part 7 Conclusion; Chapter 17 The Virtue Approach to Moral Education, David Carr, Jan Steutel;