1st Edition
Virtues and Virtue Education in Theory and Practice Are Virtues Local or Universal?
Acknowledgements
Biographies
Introduction to the Volume
Section One: Philosophical Issues
Chapter 1: Moral Relativism and Virtue
Christian Miller
Chapter 2: Meeting the Challenges to the Universality of Virtue
Jonathan Jacobs
Chapter 3: Socratic Piety and the Universality of Virtue
Randall Curren
Chapter 4: Evaluative Attitudes as the Motivational Structures of Ethical Virtues
Jonathan Webber
Chapter 5: The Essential Sociality of Aristotelian Virtue
Jennifer Rothschild
Chapter 6: Neo-Aristotelianism, the Universality of Virtues, and the Challenge of Germline Genome Editing
Nancy E. Snow
Section Two: Psychological Issues
Chapter 7: Morality as a Basic Psychological Need: Preliminary Evidence.
Eranda Jayawickreme, Mike Prentice & William Fleeson
Chapter 8: Virtue and the Specificity Principle: An Integrative Approach to Understanding Character.
Elise D. Murray & Jonathan M. Tirrell
Chapter 9: Diversity, Deviance, and Virtue within Imperfect Moral Communities.
Jennifer Cole Wright
Section Three: Practical and Educational Issues
Chapter 10: Educating Virtues in a Plural World: MacIntyre, Williams, and Nussbum on Moral Education
James MacAllister
Chapter 11: Education and Upbringing in a Superdiverse Society: On the Cultivation of the Double Gaze
Doret de Ruyter
Chapter 12: Between the Local and Global: Placing the Virtuous Professional Practitioner in Context
Sarah Banks
Chapter 13: Social Work in a Pluralistic Society—Realising the Universal Claim of Phronesis
Dieter Weber & Heidrun Wulfekühler
Chapter 14: Local Virtues: The Case of the Circus
Ron Beadle & Angus Robson
Chapter 15: Confucian Virtue Ethics and Confucian Character EducationYi-Lin Chen
Index
Biography
Catherine A. Darnell is a Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Kristján Kristjánsson is Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics at the University of Birmingham, UK.
