Connecting Virtues: Theoretical and Educational Insights
September 28, 2016 - September 30, 2016
University of Genoa (Italy)
Aula Magna of the School of Humanities
Via Balbi 2
Genoa
Italy
Sponsor(s):
- Aretai
Speakers:
Mark Alfano
Delft University of Technology
Kristján Kristjánsson
University of Birmingham
Simona Langella
University of Genoa (Italy)
Letterio Maura
University of Genoa (Italy)
Margarita Mauri Alvarez
University of Barcelona
Silvia Silva Vaccarezza
University of Genoa (Italy)
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The relationship between moral virtues and intellectual virtues Key topics:
- The nature of moral and intellectual virtues
- Mutual dependence-independence of moral and intellectual virtues
- Can a subject be intellectually virtuous while being morally vicious and vice versa?
- The role of practical wisdom among intellectual virtues
Educating to the virtues Key topics:
- Are there reasons to prefer a virtue-based approach in education?
- Educating to an overall virtuous life vs cultivating single virtues
- Comparing alternative effective strategies for instilling virtues
- Critically reporting on ongoing virtue-cultivation projects
Relationships among moral virtuesKey topics:
- Alternative lists of virtues
- Relationships among moral virtues: old and new theories
- Practical wisdom and the unity of the virtues
- Virtues, vices and mixed traits
- Virtues and the meaning of life
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