Moral Education in a Democracy

By Charles T. Taylor

In Moral Education in a Democracy, Charles Thomas Taylor argues that a common morality is essential for the security and well-being of a democratic society, but that the traditional dissemination of such moral values is now insufficient and inadequate. This deficiency requires a dramatic shift of the burden of this activity from the religious institutions to the public schools. Taylor proposes both a curriculum and a methodology for public moral education. While he maintains that an appropriate body of ethics can be derived from the ethical tenets of the major religions, he offers as a working model his own composite of such an ethics code. He further proposes a program of adult remedial moral education for use as an integral component of criminal rehabilitation and mental healthcare for convicts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761857311
• ISBN13: 9780761857310
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"