正义、美德与教育

Justice%2C Virtue and Education

如果说正义是人类道德交往的基本法则或者维度，那么这也似乎适用于一些教育问题。简而言之，我们需要教育孩子和年轻人正义和公平。然而，这并不是可以仅通过教授正义的理论就能够实现的。因为，正如这篇文章所揭示的那样，这些理论通常涉及到维护正义的准则，即在有些情况下，公民个体不能总是做到如其所期待的那样正义与公平。所以，正义教育更多的是培养正义的美德。从这点出发，本文致力于探究如何借助富有想象力的文学作品来培养正义的美德。

Given that justice is a fundamental principle or dimension of human moral association， it would also seem to be of some educational concern: in short， we should want to educate children and young people to be just or fair. However， this is not something that not something we may be hope to achieve by teaching theories of justice – since， as this paper indicates – such theories are often concerned with securing some measure of justice in circumstances where people cannot always be expected to be just or fair as individual citizens. Thus， educating for justice would seem to be more a matter of cultivating the virtue of justice. In this light， the paper proceeds to consider how this might be at least partly assisted by the moral exploration of imaginative literature.