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Kirkpatrick, Kate – Educational Theory, 2023
In this paper, Kate Kirkpatrick argues that the recent return to moral exemplars in exemplarist moral theory might benefit from engaging with existentialists' use of exemplars in two ways: first, by considering the role of negative exemplars and the power of emotions other than admiration in moral formation; and second, by considering objections…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Philosophy, Ideology, Psychological Patterns
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Zhao, Steven – Educational Theory, 2021
In this essay Steven Zhao provides an existential-phenomenological account of radicalization and extremism. This elaboration is in response to what Zhao perceives to be the two problematically dominant perspectives of discourse on radicalization: the ideational perspective and the psychological perspective. The ideational perspective is risky…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Phenomenology, Antisocial Behavior, Psychological Patterns
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Jonas, Mark E. – Educational Theory, 2016
In this essay, Mark Jonas argues that there are three broadly held misconceptions of Plato's philosophy that work against his relevance for contemporary moral education. The first is that he is an intellectualist who is concerned only with the cognitive aspect of moral development and does not sufficiently emphasize the affective and conative…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Philosophy, Misconceptions, Moral Development