Learning from Friends and Terminating Friendships: Retrieving Friendship as a Moral Educational Concept

Autor/in	Kristjánsson, Kristján
Titel	Learning from Friends and Terminating Friendships: Retrieving Friendship as a Moral Educational Concept
Quelle	In: Educational Theory, 70 (2020) 2, S.129-149 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-2004
DOI	10.1111/edth.12412
Schlagwörter	Friendship; Ethical Instruction; Educational History; Educational Philosophy; Educational Objectives + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Freundschaft; Ethics instruction; Teaching of ethics; Ethikunterricht; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel
Abstract	In contrast to ancient times, friendship is rarely discussed nowadays as a resource in moral education. Even within Aristotle-inspired character education, where it could naturally claim pride of place, its coverage is miniscule compared, say, to that of the emulation of moral exemplars. The aim of the present article is to retrieve friendship as a moral educational concept: to explain how moral educational goals define and sustain deep friendships, and how the thorny issue of when friendships should be terminated is best understood in terms of considerations as to whether they have exhausted their educational potential. By arguing that education is the "raison d'être" of deep friendship, Kristján Kristjánsson shows how friendship is developmentally constituted and, in its most complete form as "character friendship," educationally executed. There is no such thing as friendship "per se," but rather friendship at a certain developmental niveau (or level), with its specific developmental assets and liabilities: qualitatively differentiated according to its educational affordances. While operating within a broad Aristotelian framework, Kristjánsson devotes two sections to charting the moral educational liabilities that may dissipate even the most complete friendships, a topic mostly overlooked by Aristotle himself. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01