Toward Excellence: Moral Education in the Virtues

This presentation explains how a variety of scholars have made significant contributions to the study of virtue and education. Reasonableness is addressed throughout as an important moral virtue that should be developed early in one’s life and reinforced when facing daily choices and challenges. The speakers are Michael S. Pritchard, professor emeritus of the Department of Philosophy and founding director of the WMU Ethics Center, and Elaine E. Englehardt, Distinguished Professor of Ethics and a professor of philosophy emerita at Utah Valley University. Co-sponsor: Department of Philosophy. Light reception to follow in celebration of the Ethics Center's 40th anniversary.