Cultivating ethical expertise
The skill model of ethical expertise holds that becoming an ethical expert is (like) becoming an expert in a practical skill. This model of ethical education was advocated by philosophers in both ancient Greece and ancient China. In this thesis, I critique a prominent contemporary account of the ski...
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| Format: | Thesis (University of Nottingham only) |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60627/ |
| Summary: | The skill model of ethical expertise holds that becoming an ethical expert is (like) becoming an expert in a practical skill. This model of ethical education was advocated by philosophers in both ancient Greece and ancient China. In this thesis, I critique a prominent contemporary account of the skill model of virtue by attending to the phenomenology of the learning process involved in acquiring a practical skill. Situating this critique within a Merleau-Pontyian framework, I then develop a two-tiered account of ‘awareness’ which I use to explicate novel views of the epistemology of both virtue and the ancient Chinese ethical ideal wu-wei. |
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