Can Virtue Be Taught?

by Barbara Darling-Smith (Editor)

Overview

For centuries human beings have asked questions about what it is to be virtuous and how to teach goodness to the next generation. This volume contains 11 essays, written by highly regarded thinkers in the fields of theology, philosophy, and anthropology, which address the question: Can virtue be taught? Collectively these essays illuminate our current national dilemma over the problematic role of moral education in a pluralistic society; in addition they illustrate the positive role diversity plays in any discussion of virtues and education in our interdependent global community.

Contributors: Huston Smith, Amelie Oksenberg Rorty, Bhikhu Parekh, Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich, Frederick J. Streng, Katherine Platt, Ninian Smart, Leroy S. Rouner, Robert Cummings Neville Sharon Daloz Parks, and George Rupp.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780268008079
Publisher:	University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date:	11/30/1993
Series:	Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion , #14
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Barbara Darling-Smith is Assistant Professor of Religion at Wheaton College, Norton, MA, and was the Assistant Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Religion at Boston University. She is the author of the book Lord? Liberator? Friend?: Feminist Understandings of Jesus.

Editorial Reviews

"Can Virtue Be Taught? deserves a place not only in libraries and on the 'to be read' shelf of scholars of ethics and virtue, but also could serve well as a classroom text in a variety of education, philosophy, theology, anthropology, and ethical settings. It's a meaty, but accessible volume." —The Catholic World

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