“Aesthetics” is often taken to be the study of art, but it has come to mean a variety of rather different things in contemporary educational theory and practice, such as: (i) sensory education; (ii) appreciation of beauty; (iii) education in appreciation of the arts. The danger of running these different senses together is explored and the main argument of this chapter is that the moral significance of the aesthetic dimension of works of art lies in its direct engagement with the affective or emotional aspects of moral development.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
AbbsP. (2003). Against the flow: Education, the arts and post-modern culture. London: Rout-ledge Falmer.
2.
AnscombeG. E. M. (1981). Modern moral philosophy. In AnscombeG. E. M. (Ed.), Ethics, religion and politics: collected philosophical papers (Vol. III) (pp. 26–42). Oxford: Blackwell.
3.
Aristotle. (1941a). Nicomachean ethics. In McKeonR. (Ed.), The basic works of Aristotle.New York, NY: Random House.
4.
Aristotle. (1941b). Poetics. In McKeonR. (Ed.), The basic works of Aristotle. New York, NY: Random House.
5.
BellC. (1961). Art. London: Arrow Books.
6.
BestD. (1985). Feeling and reason in the arts. London: George Allen and Unwin.
CarrD. (2003). Character and moral choice in the cultivation of virtue, Philosophy, 78(2), 219–232.
9.
CarrD. (2004). Moral value and the arts in environmental education: towards an ethics of aesthetic appreciation. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 38(2), 221–239.
10.
CarrD. (2009). Virtue, mixed emotions and moral ambivalence, Philosophy, 84(1), 31–46.
11.
CarrollN. (1986). Art and interaction. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 45(1), 57–68.
12.
DavidsonD. (1984). Inquiries into truth and interpretation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
13.
DentN. J. H. (1984). The moral psychology of the virtues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
14.
DurkheimE. (1961). Moral education: A study in the theory & application of the sociology of education. New York, NY: Collier-Macmillan.
15.
EcclestoneK., & HayesD. (2009). The dangerous rise of therapeutic education. London: Rout-ledge.
16.
FootP. (1978). Virtues and vices. Oxford: Blackwell.
17.
GeachP.T. (1977). The Virtues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
18.
GingellJ. (2000). Self expression. In CurrenR. (Ed.), Philosophy of Education Society Yearbook (pp. 184–200). Philosophy of Education Society: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
19.
HepburnR. (1984). Contemporary aesthetics and the neglect of natural beauty. In HepburnR. (Ed.), Wonder and other essays: Eight studies in aesthetics and neighbouring fields. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
20.
HumeD. (1969). A treatise of human nature. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
21.
HursthouseR. (1999). On virtue ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
22.
KantI. (1952). The critique of judgment. (J. Meredith, trans.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
23.
KohlbergL. (1981). Essays on moral development (Vol. I). New York, NY: Harper Row.
24.
MacIntyreA.C. (1981). After virtue. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame Press.
MacIntyreA.C. (1992). Three rival versions of moral enquiry. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame Press.
27.
McDowellJ. (1979). Virtue and reason. The Monist62(3), 331–350.
28.
MontessoriM. (1912). The Montessori Method: Scientific pedagogy as applied to child education in “The Children's Houses” (with additions and revisions by the author) (A. E. George, Trans.) New York: NY Frederick A. Stokes Company.
29.
McFeeG. (2005). The artistic and the aesthetic. British Journal of Aesthetics.45(4), 368–387.
30.
Nichol SmithD. (1921). Wordsworth: Poetry and prose. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
31.
NoddingsN. (1984). Caring: A feminist approach to ethics. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
32.
NussbaumM. (1993). Non-relative virtues: An Aristotelian approach. In NussbaumM.C. & SenA. (Eds.), The Quality of Life (pp. 242–269). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
33.
NussbaumM. (1995). Aristotle on human nature and the foundations of ethics. In AlthamJ. E. J. & HarrisonR. (Eds.), World, mind and ethics (pp. 86–133). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
34.
PiagetJ. (1932). The moral judgment of the child. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
35.
QuineW. V. O. (1959). From a logical point of view. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
36.
RawlsJ. (1985) A theory of justice.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
37.
RousseauJ.J. (1974) Emile. London: Dent.
38.
SloteM. (1983). Goods and virtues. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
39.
SloteM. (1992). From morality to virtue. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
40.
SwantonC. (2003). Virtue ethics: A pluralistic view. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
41.
WallaceJ. D. (1978). Virtues and vices. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
