Professional Ethics Education: Studies in Compassionate Empathy

Softcover Nachdruck of hardcover 1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-90-481-7752-3
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 330 g

1. 1 Practical Ethics Education at an Impasse Why is some practical ethics training a requirement of nearly all programmes in higher education? The short answer is that it is thought to be conducive to ethical decision-making and ethical behaviour. In recent years, the received idea that competency in moral reasoning implies moral responsibility “on the ground” has been the subject of critical attention. Today, researchers in moral education widely regard moral reasoning as but one among at least four dimensions of moral dev- opment alongside moral motivation, moral character, and moral sensitivity (Rest, 1986). Reflecting these changes, educationalists in the diverse fields of medicine, education, business, and applied ethics can now be found openly questioning how to take practical ethics education beyond the development of skills in moral r- soning. Frequently topping the list of suggested improvements is to provide s- port for empathic capacities of response. This work gives this proposal the systematic attention that it deserves. Contemporary applied ethics, and by extension practical and professional ethics education, can be considered an offshoot of the broad philosophical doctrine of moral realism. Moral realism takes many forms but in broad outline it is an est- lished meta-ethical position that emerged as a seemingly attractive alternative to another family of established philosophical positions that sometimes goes under the name of “expressivism”.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maxwell, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Philosophie, LER (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Affektive, soziale und ethische Ziele in der Erziehung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Disambiguation of “Empathy”: Affective and Cognitive Conceptions.- A Conceptual and Empirical Sketch of Compassionate Empathy.- The Paradox of Compassionate Empathy's Moral Worth.- Compassionate Empathy, Moral Perception and Moral Conscience.- Intermezzo on Moral Emotion Education: Imagination, Imitation, and Reappraisal.- Compassionate Empathy in Professional and Practical Ethics Education.