CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES III. ASIA, VOLUME 2

SERIES VI. FOUNDATIONS OF MORAL EDUCATION, VOL. 5


CHINESE FOUNDATIONS FOR MORAL EDUCATION AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

edited by

TRAN VAN DOAN

VINCENT SHEN

GEORGE F. McLEAN

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Preface 

 

Introduction

 

Part I. Classical Chinese Resources for the Formation of Character

 

1. The Metaphysical Foundations of Traditional Chinese Moral Education

by Peter Kun-Yu Woo, National Taiwan Univ.

 

2. Human Nature and Human Education: On Human Nature As Tending Toward Goodness in Classical Confucianism 

by Pei-Jung Fu, National Taiwan Univ.

 

3. Hsin-Techniques and Hsin-Leadership Psychological Aspects of Confucian Moral Philosophy

by Hang Thaddeus T'ui-chieh, National Chengchi University

 

Part II. Chinese and Western Philosophical Foundations for Contemporary Moral Education

 

4. Developmental Psychology and Knowledge of Being 

by John Farrelly, St. Anselm's Abbey

 

5. The Person and Moral Growth 

by George F. McLean, CUA

 

6. Anthropological Foundation of Moral Education Responding to Rapid Technological Development 

by Vincent Shen, National Chengchi Univ.

 

Part III. Moral Education: Student and Teacher, School and Nation

 

7. The Ideological Education and Moral Education 

by Tran Van Doan, National Taiwan Univ.

 

8. Higher Moral Education in Taiwan

by Arnold Sprenger, Fu Jen Univ.

 

9. In Defense of Character Development 

by Kevin Ryan, Boston Univ.

 

Acknowledgements