Integrity as the Goal of Character Education

Abstract Schools and universities should equip students with the ability to deal an unpredictable environment in ways that promote worthwhile fulfilling lives. The world is rapidly changing contours of our ethical values have been shaped by we lived in. Education therefore needs cultivate propensity develop refine preserve important insights accrued through experience while responding novel challenges. Therefore, aim foster virtue integrity. This driven a concern for accuracy, which motivates warrants respect existing commitments as repositories previous reasoning, but equally requires recognition own fallibility consideration other people's reasoning. Ethical integrity thus comprises constancy, fidelity, humility, receptivity, balanced integrated accuracy. It kind seriousness, though it includes acceptance some degree ambivalence. inherently developmental distinct from unachievable perfection practical wisdom. Aristotelian virtue, even Aristotle does not himself name it. paper closes outline what education would look like.