Huck Finn, Moral Language and Moral Education

Autor/in	Schinkel, Anders
Titel	Huck Finn, Moral Language and Moral Education
Quelle	In: Journal of Philosophy of Education, 45 (2011) 3, S.511-525 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8249
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9752.2011.00805.x
Schlagwörter	Ethical Instruction; Conflict; Moral Values; Values Education; Novels; Literary Criticism; Slavery; Altruism; Social Attitudes; United States Literature; Classics (Literature) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethics instruction; Teaching of ethics; Ethikunterricht; Konflikt; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Werterziehung; Novel; Roman; Literaturkritik; Sklaverei; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung
Abstract	The aim of this article is twofold. Against the traditional interpretation of "the conscience of Huckleberry Finn" (for which Jonathan Bennett's article with this title is the locus classicus) as a conflict between conscience and sympathy, I propose a new interpretation of Huck's inner conflict, in terms of Huck's mastery of (the) moral language and its integration with his moral feelings. The second aim is to show how this interpretation can provide insight into a particular aspect of moral education: learning a moral language. A moral education that has a proper regard for the flexibility of moral language and the importance of the integration of moral language and (pre-)moral feelings should prevent such conflicts as Huck experienced from arising. (As Provided).
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