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Systematic conceptual and theoretical interest in moral education goes back at least as far as the Socratic question about the proper direction of a good or worthwhile human life raised in such Platonic dialogues as Gorgias and Republic (Plato, 1961). The answer that both Socrates and Plato seem to have returned to this question is that the good human life is one lived in the light of reason or a rational knowledge of the good.
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Carr, D. (2011). Virtue Ethics and The Contribution of the Arts to the Emotional Cultivation of Moral Character. In: Ruyter, D.J.d., Miedema, S. (eds) Moral Education and Development. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-716-5_7
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