Voices: The Educational Formation of Conscience

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This work aims to revise thinking about moral education and thus to revise the grasp of how we ought to go about it. The author focuses on how conscience is formed by the acquisition of norms rather than concentrating on the foundations of norms or their logical status. CHAPTER 1: The Project: A Matter of Governance I. A Matter of Governance II. The Fears and IIIusions of Moral Education Fears of Repression The IIIusion of the Autonomous Self The IIIusions of Teaching Values III. The Utopian Threat: Conservatives, Liberals, Radicals IV. Moral Philosophy and Moral Education V. The Idea of Conscience VI. Voices Learning and Knowing as Hearing Development CHAPTER 2 Moral Education as Norm Acquisition I. Norm and Normation: The Analysis Compliance, Obedience, and Observance Norm Acquisition-Criteria The Essential Presence of a Critical Attitude ... And Caring to Be Correct II. Norms and Knowledge III. The Situational Location of Norms Norms, judgment, and the Foundationalist Project Norms Resident in Practices The IIIusion of Norm Application IV. Strong and Weak Normation Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft Organic and Mechanical Solidarity V. Moral Education as Social Criticism The Empirical and Normative Communities Internal and External Interpretation CHAPTER 3: The Voices of Conscience I: Craft and Membership I. The Conscience of Craft Evaluation and the Conscience of Craft The Craft Analogy ll. The Conscience of Membership Public and Private Response to Error IIIustrated The Devolution of Norms to Technique Profession as Public A Curriculum of Moral Skill First lesson Second lesson Third lesson CHAPTER 4: The Voices of Conscience I I: Sacrifice, Memory, and Imagination I. The Conscience of Sacrifice The Primacy of Prudence From Principle to Practice Pedagogy and Serious Moral Language The Pedagogical Uses of Ethical Theories Back to the Conscience ofMembership II. The Conscience of Memory and Imagination Rootedness Memory as Reception Imagination as Critique The Sacred Hope Contents CHAPTER 5: Teaching Values: The Grand Delusion I. The Problem Something Odd about That The Worldly Evacuation of Value II. Social Values as Social Structure Values as the Form of Social Relations Conflict ofValues Change and Permanence of Values Values as a Public Affair III. Other Views of Values Values as Beliefs Values as Explanatory Fictions IV. Values as Strong Normation CHAPTER 6: Public Speech I. Introduction II. The Power of Speech I ISO III. A Theory of Public Speech The Question Examined The Auditory Principle IV. Types of Public Speech The Forum Umbilical Stories I I 6o V. Fallacies of Public Speech Fallacies of Role and Position Fallacies of Explanation Fallacies of Misplaced Discourse CHAPTER 7: Public Policy and the Office of Citizen I. The Office of Citizen II. Policy Questions Policy Questions, Practical Reason, and the Technicist Delusion III. The Etiology of Policy Questions Scarcity Conflict of Goods Policy, Politics, and Utopia Politics and Policy in Utopia I I8o IV. Other Presuppositions Constraints of Time Policy Decisions and Moral judgments Post-hoc Determinations of Policy V. The Policy Process Policy Analysis Policy Formation Policy Decision Political Analysis VI. Normation to the Office of Citizen