Reasonable Plurality and Moral Education. New Perspectives on Old Paradoxes.
<span>This article faces an old paradox of moral education: the apparently logical impossibility of choosing the transmission of agreed-upon values and the autonomous exercise of reason. The author takes an epistemological position in which human learning is considered the result of an int...
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Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
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| author | Ana María Salmerón Castro |
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| description | <span>This article faces an old paradox of moral education: the apparently logical impossibility of choosing the transmission of agreed-upon values and the autonomous exercise of reason. The author takes an epistemological position in which human learning is considered the result of an interaction of individual developmental processes and the acquisition of knowledge. She assumes knowledge as a category subjected to criteria of truth, and this, as preceded by an agreement concerning values. She states that transmission of the community consensus is not only inevitable, but is essential to the development of the autonomous deliberative game and to the exercise of critical intelligence as well. However, she warns us against a possible danger: the mere transmission of accepted principles and values may place moral education under a heterogeneous direction of conduct. Educators should, by all means, avoid such a risk. She suggests seeking a reasonable plurality as a means of transmitting agreed-upon values. The notion of reasonable plurality derives from a feature assigned to John Rawls’ concept of “overlapping consensus”. </span> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-273c59c57cfc4b72bb8696807dff2c5f2022-12-21T22:08:52ZengUniversidad Autónoma de Baja CaliforniaRevista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa1607-40412000-05-012112Reasonable Plurality and Moral Education. New Perspectives on Old Paradoxes.Ana María Salmerón Castro0Grupo de Investigación en Educación Moral Universidad de Barcelona<span>This article faces an old paradox of moral education: the apparently logical impossibility of choosing the transmission of agreed-upon values and the autonomous exercise of reason. The author takes an epistemological position in which human learning is considered the result of an interaction of individual developmental processes and the acquisition of knowledge. She assumes knowledge as a category subjected to criteria of truth, and this, as preceded by an agreement concerning values. She states that transmission of the community consensus is not only inevitable, but is essential to the development of the autonomous deliberative game and to the exercise of critical intelligence as well. However, she warns us against a possible danger: the mere transmission of accepted principles and values may place moral education under a heterogeneous direction of conduct. Educators should, by all means, avoid such a risk. She suggests seeking a reasonable plurality as a means of transmitting agreed-upon values. The notion of reasonable plurality derives from a feature assigned to John Rawls’ concept of “overlapping consensus”. </span>http://redie.uabc.mx/redie/article/view/14Educación moraldesarrollo moralfilosofía de la educaciónenseñanza de valores |
| spellingShingle | Ana María Salmerón Castro Reasonable Plurality and Moral Education. New Perspectives on Old Paradoxes. Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa Educación moral desarrollo moral filosofía de la educación enseñanza de valores |
| title | Reasonable Plurality and Moral Education. New Perspectives on Old Paradoxes. |
| title_full | Reasonable Plurality and Moral Education. New Perspectives on Old Paradoxes. |
| title_fullStr | Reasonable Plurality and Moral Education. New Perspectives on Old Paradoxes. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reasonable Plurality and Moral Education. New Perspectives on Old Paradoxes. |
| title_short | Reasonable Plurality and Moral Education. New Perspectives on Old Paradoxes. |
| title_sort | reasonable plurality and moral education new perspectives on old paradoxes |
| topic | Educación moral desarrollo moral filosofía de la educación enseñanza de valores |
| url | http://redie.uabc.mx/redie/article/view/14 |
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