Epistemology, ethics, and moral education: A methodological justification for a moral curriculum based on Jewish social values

Abstract

The chapter advocates an integrative approach to moral education based on Jewish social values using of practical reasoning, which it argues can serve to reduce the gap between moral knowledge and habits. The curriculum (whose target audience is high school freshmen) seeks to address how to create an educational program which not only provides an intellectual framework for ethical deliberation but also imparts the necessary tools for moral training to instill in students both the knowledge and the will to live a morally motivated life of human flourishing. The curriculum attempts to do so by establishing the "rules of the game" for ethical behavior using the standards of classroom behavior as the starting point for moral education.