This study suggests the new paradigm of moral judgement education which turns moral judgement into moral practice. The current moral judgement education has been controversial for many years. It has put an emphasis on logical, rational education by th...
This study suggests the new paradigm of moral judgement education which turns moral judgement into moral practice. The current moral judgement education has been controversial for many years. It has put an emphasis on logical, rational education by the process of reasoning. But moral practice could not evolve through the process. The idea considers this world a simple system. The principle is too simple to relate moral judgement with moral practice.
In order to find out the correlation between moral judgement and moral practice, This paper deeply investigated the Akrasia of Socrates. There is some skepticism about his idea that knowing of a virtue automatically leads acting in accordance with it. Aristoteles said that Akrasia is based on the relation between the nous and practice. This is contrast with the notion about knowledge and practice. This paper shows that Aristoteles's thought is more effective in promoting moral practice. He insisted that Akrasia is sought not by relating episteme with action but by relating nous with action. In other words, he advances moral practice by approaching moral judgement based on the 'nous' but not 'knowledge'.
Then what is the nous as moral judgement? Some features of the nous, as Martha. C. Nussbaum picked out, are found in incommensurability of complex values, priority of particularity, emotion and imagnation and equilibrium of thinking, and to stimulate the nous, we need to use experience and literature. But this method is difficult to generalize. As a result, this paper expects that conversation in investigating community helps to cope with this problem, and advance moral judgement.
True conversation brings about moral practice. It matches "Who am I? with "What do I want to talk about?". The practice is made more possible if I talk about my identity.
This study has shown how the moral judgement relates with the moral practice, what kinds of features the moral judgement carries and how the features can lead to the moral practice though the conversation within investigating community.