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Experiential Moral Character: Reconceptualization and Measurement Justification
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Li, Shaobing
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1574794255368781
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Year and Degree
2019, Doctor of Philosophy, Miami University, Educational Leadership.
Abstract
In this project, I examine the theoretical and practical arenas in terms of the conceptualization, implementation, and pedagogy of moral character. The fundamental concern is embodied in the reductive fallacy and the conceptual blurriness between moral character and moral virtue facing extant moral character definitions, as well as the attribution error and confirmation bias (Harman, 2000) for empirical measurements of moral character. The review of contemporary literature confirms but does not provide conceptually concrete and structurally holistic solutions to the fundamental problems diagnosed above. So I dive deep into the four legendary philosophers, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Dewey to explore how they conceptualize experiential moral character in terms of the five dimensions of its forming logical structure (i.e., distinct appearances, intrinsic motivations, operative strengths, active self-agency, and awakened supreme moral principles). Through reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of historic conceptualizations by the four philosophers, I re-conceptualize experiential moral character based on the Body-Heart-Mind-Soul model. In the end, I briefly analyze the three areas in which experiential moral character can be applied: empirical measurements in research, experiential moral character education intervention or practice, and self-meditation practice.
Committee
Kathleen Knight Abowitz (Advisor)
Joel Malin (Committee Member)
Thomas Poetter (Committee Member)
Aimin Wang (Committee Member)
Pages
159 p.
Subject Headings
Educational Leadership
Keywords
Moral character
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Experiential perspective
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Virtue ethics, Sentimentalism
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Pragmatism
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Critical philosophy
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Li, S. (2019).
Experiential Moral Character: Reconceptualization and Measurement Justification
[Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1574794255368781
APA Style (7th edition)
Li, Shaobing.
Experiential Moral Character: Reconceptualization and Measurement Justification.
2019. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1574794255368781.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Li, Shaobing. "Experiential Moral Character: Reconceptualization and Measurement Justification." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1574794255368781
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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