Phronesis and the Knowledge-Action Gap in Moral Psychology and Moral Education: A New Synthesis?

Darnell, Catharine; Gulliford, Liz; Kristjánsson, Kristján; Paris, Panos

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“…Essential for one to endorse and demonstrate 'good' character is an ability to use well-informed judgement (e.g. Darnell et al 2019;Kotzee et al 2016;Seijts et al 2019). Aristotle refers to the overarching meta-virtue known as phronesis, or practical wisdom (Aristotle 2009), which serves as a moral integrator to critically evaluate and 'deliberate finely' about the relative weight of competing virtues (e.g.…”

Section: Character In the Professional Spherementioning

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The Value of Character-Based Judgement in the Professional Domain

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Dimensions of character are often overlooked in professional practice at the expense of the development of technical competence and operational efficiency. Drawing on philosophical accounts of virtue ethics and positive psychology, the present work attempts to elevate the role of 'good' character in the professional domain. A 'good' professional is ideally one that exemplifies dimensions of character informed by sound judgement. A total of 2340 professionals, from five discrete professions, were profiled based on their valuation of qualities pertaining to character and judgement. Profile differences were subsequently examined in the self-reported experience of professional purpose towards a wider societal 'good'. Analysis of covariance, controlling for stage of career, revealed that professionals valuing character reported higher professional purpose than those overweighting the importance of judgement or valuing neither character nor judgement, F(3, 2054) = 7.92, p < .001. No differences were found between the two groups valuing character, irrespective of whether judgement was valued simultaneously. This profiling analysis of entry-level and in-service professionals, based on their holistic character composition, paves the way for fresh philosophical discussion regarding what constitutes a 'good' professional and the interplay between character and judgement. The empirical findings may be of substantive value in helping to recognise how the dimensions of character and judgement may impact upon practitioners' professional purpose.

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Section: Character In the Professional Spherementioning

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“…In the face of more temptation from the material wealth compared with high school, the students gradually ignore the pursuit of traditional moral values, or even overwhelmed by the craze for materials. During this period, the gap between knowledge and action in moral psychology and education becomes even sharper [6][7][8]. This process is where Confucian culture loses in the young generation of China.…”

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The Inheritance and Spreading of Confucianism in Modern China and South Korea

Xiao¹,

Hu²

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2019)

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Confucianism has influenced the regulating of family relations, the maintaining of social order, and the promoting of national spirit for thousands of years in the East Asian cultural circle. Though Confucianism originates in China, it is not inherited and spread as successful as in South Korea nowadays. This study applies the qualitative analysis to investigate the underlying reasons for different situations of Confucian cultural preservation between modern China and South Korea. The findings are (1) compared with China where several radical movements in modern times started from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement have dealt a serious blow to the status of Confucianism, Korean witnessed a rather moderate process of Confucianism development. (2) Korea lays great emphasis on moral education of Confucianism, while academic achievement seems to be prioritized in China's teaching activities. (3) Korea takes full advantage of mass media to popularize Confucianism, the degree of which hasn't been realized in China. These practices in Korea shed light on China to better improve the culture soft power embodied in Confucianism in modernization.

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“…29 Serious efforts are now afoot, however, to remedy this shortcoming by an interdisciplinary team of philosophers and psychologists. 30 The advantage of instrument design is that relevant conceptual nuances need to be elicited and the components of the construct under examination identified in detail. According to the fairly minimalist reading by Darnell and colleagues of Aristotelian phronesis, it serves at least four distinct functions and thus constitutes what psychologists would call a four-component construct.…”

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Filtering Friendship throughPhronesis: ‘One Thought too Many’?

Kristjánsson¹

2019

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An adequate moral theory must – or so many philosophers have argued – be compatible with the attitudes and practical requirements of deep friendship. Bernard Williams suggested that the decision procedure required by both deontology and consequentialism inserts a fetishising filter between the natural moral motivation of any normal person to prioritise friends and the decision to act on it. But this injects ‘one thought too many’ into the moral reaction mechanism. It is standardly assumed that virtue ethics is somehow immune to this objection. The present article explores this assumption and finds it wanting in various respects. Virtue ethics filters friendship through phronesis and thus inserts an extra thought into the mechanism in question. To escape Williams's curse, the only way is to argue that the extra thought required by virtue ethics is not ‘one thought too many’. The article closes with an attempt to show that, contra deontology, the friendship motivation in virtue ethics is derived from the moral virtue, not the intellectual filter, and, contra consequentialism, phronesis does not require the maximisation of value. The presumed advantage of virtue ethics must lie in the content of its filter rather than the filter's non-existence.

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Phronesis and the Knowledge-Action Gap in Moral Psychology and Moral Education: A New Synthesis?

Cited by 154 publications

References 74 publications

The Value of Character-Based Judgement in the Professional Domain

The Value of Character-Based Judgement in the Professional Domain

The Inheritance and Spreading of Confucianism in Modern China and South Korea

Filtering Friendship throughPhronesis: ‘One Thought too Many’?

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