Dissertação
Virtudes intelectuais e educação
Fecha
2016-10-07Registro en:
BORBA, Alexandre Ziani de. VIRTUDES INTELECTUAIS E EDUCAÇÃO. 2016. 86 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Filosofia) - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, 2016.
Autor
Borba, Alexandre Ziani de
Institución
Resumen
This work aims to apply virtue epistemology in the specific context of educational
practice and theory. With its focus on intellectual character traits, such as
inquisitiveness, open-mindedness and intellectual autonomy, I explore the nature of
intellectual virtues, its relationship with emotions, the reasons to treat them as an aim of
education, the criteria for the selection of relevant intellectual virtues in school
environments and some didactic strategies to cultivate them in the school community.
Chapter 1 approaches the nature of intellectual virtues, where I argue that an
intellectually virtuous person is characteristically a person that possesses a valuable
intellectual condition, a critical and well-informed assessment of her own intellectual
condition and for being responsible for the stability and improvement of her own
intellectual condition. In this chapter, I also present and explore two kinds of relations
between intellectual virtues and emotions. In chapter 2, I develop three arguments in
favor of the idea that we should take intellectual virtues as an aim of education. Some
objections about the desirability of this idea are raised and answered. Next, I articulate
five criteria for the selection of relevant intellectual virtues in school environments.
Chapter 3 is dedicated to the elaboration of general strategies for the teaching of
intellectual virtues. Some specific intellectual virtues are selected to show how these
general strategies would look like in practice. The selection of such virtues follows one
or another criterion of selection stipulated in the previous chapter.