the do-gooder, the vain, the generous, and moral education  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Education, Citizenship and Social Justice vol. 1 no. 03 (Nov. 2006), page 267–282.
Topik: Aristotle; generosity; service learning; vanity; world poverty; zealotry
Fulltext: 267.pdf (118.25KB)

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The virtue of generosity – at least generosity in the context of world poverty – is conspicuously absent from most curricula in the field of moral education. This article explores generosity and its educational ramifications. I start by characterizing two types of persons who may seem to be generous but who do not really possess generosity as a stable character trait. I do so by dint of fictional characters from two well-known novels – Nick Hornby’s How to Be Good, and Albert Camus’ The Fall – showing how the protagonists of both novels (‘the do-gooder’ and ‘the vain’) fall short of true generosity. I then consider Aristotle’s specification of generosity, and explain how Aristotle’s generous person morally surpasses both character types. I finally address didactic issues – how to teach generosity – by highlighting the quasi-Aristotelian method of ‘service learning’.

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