Darnell, C., Gulliford, L., Kristjánsson, K. and Paris, P. (2019) Phronesis and the Knowledge-Action Gap in Moral Psychology and Moral Education: A New Synthesis? Human Development. 62(3), pp. 101-129. 1423-0054.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Abstract: | This article has two aims. First, to offer a critical review of the literatures on two well-known single-component solutions to the problem of a gap between moral knowledge and moral action: moral identity and moral emotions. Second, to take seriously the rising interest in Aristotle-inspired virtue ethics and character development within the social sciences: approaches that seem to assume that the development of phronesis (practical wisdom) bridges the gap in question. Since phronesis is a multicomponent construct, the latter part of this article offers an overview of what those different components would be, as a necessary precursor to operationalising them if the phronesis hypothesis were to be subjected to empirical scrutiny. The idea of a neo-Aristotelian multicomponent solution to the “gappiness problem” invites comparisons with another multicomponent candidate, the neo-Kohlbergian four-component model, with which it shares at least surface similarities. Some space is thus devoted to the proposed theoretical uniqueness of a phronesis-based multicomponent model vis-à-vis the neo-Kohlbergian one. Our main conclusion is that – weaknesses in its developmental psychological grounding notwithstanding – operationalising the phronesis model for the purposes of instrument design and empirical inquiry would be a feasible and potentially productive enterprise. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Gappiness problem, Moral emotions, Moral identity, Neo-Kohlbergian four-component model, Phronesis |
| Creators: | Darnell, Catharine, Gulliford, Liz, Kristjánsson, Kristján and Paris, Panos |
| Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: |
Faculties > Faculty of Health & Society > Psychology Research Centres > Centre for Psychology and Social Sciences |
| Date: | 1 June 2019 |
| Date Type: | Publication |
| Page Range: | pp. 101-129 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Human Development |
| Volume: | 62 |
| Number: | 3 |
| Number of Pages: | 29 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1159/000496136 |
| ISSN: | 1423-0054 |
| Status: | Published / Disseminated |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/11799 |
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