Ethical Inquiry: Instructional Manual To Accompany Lisa

by Matthew Lipman, Ann Margaret Sharp

This instructional manual provides students and adults with the tools to support dialogue around ethical issues. These tools include anticipating consequences, taking all the circumstances into account, giving good reasons, universalizing, being consistent, and projecting ideals of the people they would like to be and the world they would like to live in. This manual also provides an introduction to metaphysical, ethical, social and aesthetic concepts such self, time, personhood, reciprocity, and freedom. The various exercises and discussion plans will encourage students to reach a level of reflective equilibrium in their conversations about these issues. For those who wish facilitate ethical inquiry with adolescents in ways that enable them to avoid both dogmatism and naïve relativism, this manual will serve as a valuable guide!

Spiral-bound

First published June 28, 1985