caa a22 4500 445848170 CHVBK 20180317145405.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11217-011-9223-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11217-011-9223-1 Gilead Tal School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel aut Countering the Vices: On the Neglected Side of Character Education [Elektronische Daten] [Tal Gilead] Following the rise of virtue and character education, educational philosophers have recently given much attention to questions relating to virtue and the good. This, however, has not been paralleled by a similar interest in vice and evil, which, in this context, are examined only rarely. In this article, I use the work of the American philosopher John Kekes as a backdrop for discussing the role coping with vice and evil should play in virtue and character education. I show how Kekes' assumptions that people have natural inclinations towards both virtue and vice and that evil and vice are an inevitable part of human existence lead to the idea that character education should explicitly discuss not only the virtues but also the vices, that it should promote self-control and that it should bring people to recognize that they have mixed moral inclinations. I then argue that even if we reject Kekes' key assumptions, embracing these three ideas that attempt to provide means to counter the vices might still have marked benefits for character education. The article concludes by suggesting that while the ideas that stem from Kekes' approach should not necessarily be embraced, the themes that they raise call for greater consideration and further analysis. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Moral education nationallicence Character nationallicence Virtue nationallicence Vice nationallicence Evil nationallicence Kekes nationallicence Studies in Philosophy and Education Springer Netherlands 30/3(2011-05-01), 271-284 0039-3746 30:3<271 2011 30 11217 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-011-9223-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-011-9223-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Gilead Tal School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Studies in Philosophy and Education Springer Netherlands 30/3(2011-05-01), 271-284 0039-3746 30:3<271 2011 30 11217 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer