The Rehabilitation of Virtue: Foundations of Moral Education

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This book proposes an approach to values education centered on an analysis of the relationship between thinking and valuing and focused on strategies for nurturing the capacity for sustained, disciplined, and informed reflection on the issues of moral decision and religious belief. Robert Sandin contends that there is an urgent need for education at the present time to effect a return to the traditional ideals of intellectual values education in American schools and colleges, a review of several well-known theories of values-related education, and an account of the development of the philosophy of value in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sandin is committed to the concept that virtue is compatible with the ideals of learning, and further demonstrates why the programme of education that nurtures an authentic spirituality, free from illusion.

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ROBERT T. SANDIN is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Special Programs and Professor of Philosophy and former Provost at Mercer University. He is the author of The Search for Excellence: The Christian College in an Age of Educational Competition (1982) and Autonomy and Faith: Religious Preference in Employment Decisions in Religiously Affiliated Higher Education (1990).