caa a22 4500 606238026 CHVBK 20210128101256.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-014-9558-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-014-9558-0 Situationism and the Neglect of Negative Moral Education [Elektronische Daten] [J. Messina, Chris Surprenant] This paper responds to the recent situationist critique of practical rationality and decision-making. According to that critique, empirical evidence indicates that our choices (1) are governed by morally irrelevant situational factors and not durable character traits, and (2) rarely result from overt rational deliberation. This critique is taken to indicate that popular moral theories in the Western tradition (i.e., virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, and utilitarian ethics) are descriptively deficient, even if normatively plausible or desirable. But we believe that the situationist findings regarding the sources of, or influences over, our moral agency do not reflect durable features of human nature, and claim that these findings are a byproduct of a deficient approach to moral education. Existing models of moral education, which are "positive” in nature, do a poor job of developing virtuous people. Instead, we argue that a "negative” approach to moral education, traceable to Locke, Smith, and Rousseau, would be more successful. This strategy represents something of a compromise between the strategies adopted by thinkers like Rachana Kamtekar (Ethics: Int J Soc, Polit, Leg Phil 114 (3): 458-491 2004), who argues that traditional moral categories escape largely untouched by findings in social psychology, and John Doris (Noûs 32(4):504-530 1998) and Gilbert Harman (Bus Ethics Q 13 (1): 87-94 2003), who argue that findings in psychology prove our traditional moral theories are defective. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Moral education nationallicence Situationism nationallicence Social psychology nationallicence Virtue nationallicence Messina J. Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive # 0119, 92093, La Jolla, CA, USA aut Surprenant Chris Department of Philosophy, University of New Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, 70148, New Orleans, LA, USA aut Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/4(2015-08-01), 835-849 1386-2820 18:4<835 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9558-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9558-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Messina J. Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive # 0119, 92093, La Jolla, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Surprenant Chris Department of Philosophy, University of New Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, 70148, New Orleans, LA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/4(2015-08-01), 835-849 1386-2820 18:4<835 2015 18 10677