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The Dismantling of Moral Education
How Higher Education Reduced the Human Identity
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2022
Summary
American educators have consistently splintered our humanity into pieces throughout higher education’s history. Although key leaders of America’s colonial colleges shared a common functional understanding of humans as made in God’s image with a robust but vulnerable moral conscience, latter moral philosophers did not build upon that foundation. Instead, they turned to shards of our identity to help students find their moral bearings. They sought to create ladies and gentlemen, honorable students, and finally, good professionals. As a result, fragmentation ensued as university leaders pitted these identity fragments against each other inciting a war of attrition.
As the war of identities raged, its effects spilled out beyond the bounds of the curriculum into the co-curricular dimension that struggled with moving beyond being en loco parentis. The major identity they cultivated was that of being a political citizen. Thus, the major identity and story of students’ lives became the American political story of democracy—what I call Meta-Democracy. In higher education guided by Meta-Democracy, students lose their autonomy to administrators who reduce the student identities they try to develop along with the range of virtues that comprise the good life. The Dismantling of Moral Education: How Higher Education Reduced the Human Identity explains why and how we arrived at diminishing ourselves.
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2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-6494-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-6496-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
206
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Preface No access
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Introduction No access
Christian vs. Aristotelian Ethics (1569–1765) No access
The Rise and Fall of America’s Collegiate Conscience No access
How Virtue Lost Its Humanity No access
The Death of Ladies and Gentlemen (1673–Present) No access
The End of Honor No access
The Professionalization of Ethics No access
Administrators Take Back Moral Control of the Co-Curricular No access
Developing Autonomous Choosers for Democracy No access
