scholarly journals ENTRE LA VIRTUD Y EL UTILITARISMO: UNA APROXIMACIÓN A LA EDUCACIÓN MORAL

Author(s):  
Yaiza Sánchez Pérez
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La reflexión sobre cuestiones relacionadas con la educación moral, ya no solo en su concepción teórica, sino en su puesta en práctica dentro de las aulas, es esencial para el correcto ejercicio de la profesión docente. Por este motivo, se analizan las aportaciones realizadas por Aristóteles y John Stuart Mill a la educación moral con el fin de construir una reflexión pedagógica que facilite la comprensión del desarrollo moral del alumnado en el contexto educativo actual. A partir de una perspectiva filosófica, se utiliza un método analítico basado en el estudio de los postulados de la ética de la virtud y el utilitarismo; concretamente en cuestiones relacionadas con el desarrollo moral de los sujetos, la felicidad o la importancia del razonamiento ante los conflictos morales para comprender qué aportaciones se pueden aplicar a la educación actual. Las principales conclusiones extraídas tras el estudio son la importancia de reflexionar críticamente en los centros educativos sobre conceptos como prudencia, virtud, felicidad o ciudadanía; así como la riqueza que aporta al debate educativo la incorporación de conceptos como la virtud. Además, desarrollar virtudes en el alumnado permitirá que conozcan el bien, lo deseen y lo practiquen.

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Molnar

Freud's translation of J.S. Mill involved an encounter with the traditions of British empirical philosophy and associationist psychology, both of which go back to Locke and Hume. The translation of Mill's essay on Plato also brought Freud into contact with the philosophical controversy between the advocates of intuition and faith and the advocates of perception and reason. A comparison of source and translated texts demonstrates Freud's faithfulness to his author. A few significant deviations may be connected with Freud's ambiguous attitude to women's rights, as advocated in the essay The Enfranchisement of Women. Stylistically Freud had nothing to learn from Mill. His model in English was Macaulay, whom he was also reading at this period.


2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinah Birch

The contested values associated with the term ‘Victorian’ call for fresh and informed consideration in the light of far-reaching changes brought about by the global economic downturn. Victorian writers engaged with public questions that were often associated with the issues we must now address, and their vigorously contentious responses reflect a drive to influence a wide audience with their ideas. Fiction of the period, including the sensation novels of the 1860s, provide telling examples of these developments in mid-Victorian writing; but non-fictional texts, including those of the philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill and the critic John Ruskin, also question the foundations of social thought. As they challenged traditional genre boundaries through the innovative forms that emerged across a range of diverse works, many Victorian authors argued for closer links between the discourses of emotion and those of logic. These are difficult times for researchers and critics, but the stringencies we find ourselves confronting can provide opportunities to create connections of the kind that the Victorians chose to make, bringing together different genres of writing and disciplines of thought, and arguing for a more generous understanding of our responsibilities towards each other.


Author(s):  
Sarah Collins

This chapter examines the continuities between the categories of the “national” and the “universal” in the nineteenth century. It construes these categories as interrelated efforts to create a “world” on various scales. The chapter explores the perceived role of music as a world-making medium within these discourses. It argues that the increased exposure to cultural difference and the interpretation of that cultural difference as distant in time and space shaped a conception of “humanity” in terms of a universal history of world cultures. The chapter reexamines those early nineteenth-century thinkers whose work became inextricably linked with the rise of exclusivist notions of nationalism in the late nineteenth century, such as Johann Gottfried Herder and John Stuart Mill. It draws from their respective treatment of music to recover their early commitment to universalizable principles and their view that the “world” is something that must be actively created rather than empirically observed.


1978 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 546-548
Author(s):  
James M. Buchanan
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