Love, knowledge (wisdom) and justice: Moral education beyond the cultivation of Aristotelian virtuous character

There could hardly have been a more influential twentieth-century philosophical essay than Elizabeth Anscombe’s ‘Modern moral philosophy’, in which she condemned the prevailing and competing ethics of duty utility her day urged philosophers to abandon search for any general conception ‘morality’ favour return Aristotle’s particular focus on virtue virtues as powers or qualities good human character. While not slow rally this banner—with timely useful attention wide range character virtues—it was inevitable that educationalists would also soon turn towards understanding virtuous be prime if main concern education. However, without denying recent has worthwhile, it is crucial appreciate themselves such mostly fall short status value some independent criterion cannot, Anscombe recommended, renounced. In spirit, present paper attempts comprehend educational significance by reference interlinked concepts love, knowledge justice.