模仿、想象和重新评价:道德情感的教育

Imitation,Imagination and Reappraisal:Education the Moral Emotions

在人文科学研究的发展趋势中,所有观察者都会对情感作用做出新的正确的评价。尽管如此,“将情感教育作为道德教育的一个维度”仍是一个带有几分禁忌的话题。为证实这一点,我们提出通常未被认可、但明确适应于情感教育的三种干预方式。实施情感教育不仅是可能的,实际上也很常见。与道德行为相比,规则情感或许是衡量道德教育是否成功的一个更好的尺度。

Every observers of research currents in the human sciences can detect a new appreciation for the contribution of emotions. Despite this, we claim that educating the emotions as a dimension of moral education remains something of a taboo subject. As evidence for this, we present three categories of interventions that fit unmistakably into the category of the education of the emotions, but which go generally unrecognized. It is a fact that emotional education is held not just to be possible, but is in fact commonplace. Emotions seem indeed to be a better measure of successful moral education than moral acts.