Anything you can do i can do better: Dialectical argument in philosophy of education

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Drawing upon my critical appropriation of Alasdair MacIntyre's account of the rationality of traditions, I undertake to explain and demonstrate how the competing conceptual frameworks of distinct traditions of educational inquiry and practice can be assessed through dialectical argument. To illustrate the 'method' of dialectic, I argue that the set of metaethical commitments I call 'the ethics of transcendent virtue' has important advantages for teaching courses in professional ethics over the 'constructivist-postmodern-moral- pragmatism' informing Robert J. Nash's text 'Real world' Ethics: Frameworks for Educators and Human Service Professionals. I conclude with reflections upon the conditions under which dialectical encounters among proponents of different conceptual schemes are likely to be productive. © 2009 Journal of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.

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Vokey, D. (2009). Anything you can do i can do better: Dialectical argument in philosophy of education. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 43(3), 339–355. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.2009.00701.x

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