Moral character education is important in moral education. So moral judgement education is also very important. Because the person who has no capacity for moral judgement can't be a man of moral character. But unfortunately so far there has been a ver...
Moral character education is important in moral education. So moral judgement education is also very important. Because the person who has no capacity for moral judgement can't be a man of moral character. But unfortunately so far there has been a very little interest in moral judgment education. As a result moral judgement education didn't carry out enough. The dominant cause is that the concept of moral judgement is too narrow. We have regarded it as a moral judgement by moral virtue or rational principle, that is not appropriate concept. That effected the whole paradigm in moral judgement education and result in the fact that practical approach is not appropriate. Actually most of moral judgement education in a classroom dose not carry out authentically. Especially moral judgement education for children is not watched with keen interest. Therefore we should reconstruct the concept of moral judgement if we really want moral judgement education to carry out appropriately. Moreover we should search for proper practical approach. For that reason, this paper pay attention to M. Lipman' concept of reasonableness and his philosophical community of inquiry.
M. Lipman' concept of reasonableness is on the way between foundationalism and anti-foundationalism. It can be called contextual objectivism because it maintains balance between contextual peculiarity and objective judgement like Aristotle's concept of mean and practical wisdom and Rawls's reflective equilibrium. So reasonableness is a regulative idea for every practical context. It is a status of reflective equilibrium by multi-dimensional thinking and disposition. According to this, the character of moral judgement which is based on reasonableness stresses out practical context and achieves reflective equilibrium by using critical - creative - caring thinking and disposition. Also, It is a moral judgement which integrates cognitive - affective - active morality and many respect of duality in moral education field. Briefly the moral judgement based on reasonableness is a reflective equilibrium by multi-dimensional inquiry in moral practical context or in other words, it is getting multi-dimensional practical wisdom. It is totally different from moral judgement by moral virtue or rational principle. Therefore reasonableness can lead moral judgement education which is suitable to its essential.
Philosophical community of inquiry is a practical approach which can actualize reasonableness in education. It is a community of inquiry which its members construct a reasonable judgement with 'doing philosophy'. It is a field for practical exercise based on caring community in which members can construct a reasonable judgement with psychological safety and getting cognitive encouragement. So it means that moral judgement education through philosophical community of inquiry is a communicative ethical inquiry with characteristic dimension and integration. Especially it gives a chance for practical exercise for children which allow children to grow multi-dimensional practical wisdom step by step. Therefore philosophical community of inquiry can be a relevant practical approach for moral judgement education.
In conclusion, moral judgement education with philosophical community of inquiry based on reasonableness can provide a field for psychological- cognitive- practical exercise for reasonable judgement and provides an environment where children can get experience of meeting the world, people and life together with their teachers and friends. Also, they can get experience of discovering meaning and discovering worth to of failure and disappointment. That experience gives children a sense of reflective equilibrium between 'I and people', I and it', 'I and the world'. Finally, that experience leads children to reasonable judgement of their problem and it also makes children to be positive moral humane- being who recognize herself/himself as a person can construct 'something', as not a person just follow ready-made world without 'herself/himself'.