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September 2022

Cultivating Virtue in the University

Edited by Jonathan Brant, Edward Brooks, and Michael Lamb

Cultivating Virtue in the University is a collection of essays from scholars in education, history, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology, exploring the context, opportunities and challenges surrounding the ethical formation of college students. Jonathan Brant, Edward Brooks, and Michael Lamb not only edit the volume, they also provide a case for character education in universities as an introduction, and author an article detailing strategies for cultivating character in higher education. This volume is indispensable to anyone interested in making virtue central to a good education.

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GOOD THOUGHT

Arthur Schwartz

According to a recent National Business Ethics Survey (2013), almost one out of two U.S. employees has witnessed wrongdoing in their workplace. Half of them did not report the wrongdoing or take any action. Why do some individuals display courage at work while many of their co-workers — when faced with the same situation — do not?

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Claire Keegan

Claire Keegan’s Christmas novella, Small Things Like Thesewill not only draw your imagination into the lives of characters in an Irish town during Christmas week in the 1980s; it could also be an argument for liberal education.

GOOD WORK

How can universities encourage students to move beyond cognitive engagement with ideas about flourishing into habits and ways of being? For students in Villanova University’s Honors Program, a Living Learning Community with a focus on “The Examined Life: the Good, the True, the Beautiful,” aims to do just that.

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