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| Calendar: | Bergen ECS Platforms |
| Title: | Can Virtue Be Taught? The dilemmas of moral education |
| When: | 21.03.2010 11:00 - 12:30 |
| Description: | Dr. Radest wrote the following to describe this address: "2500 years ago, Socrates wrestled with the question: Can virtue be taught? And we’re still at it. I think back to my experience as an Ethical Culture Leader, as head of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, and now as Board of Trustees Chair of the Ethical Community Charter School in Jersey City. I look at the complications these days of knowing, judging, deciding, and acting ethically. So, once again, I’m trying to figure out what the teacher, the classroom, the school, the parent, and the community can do to teach for moral competence. Doing ethics is a life-long vocation, so even at 82 I’m still trying to illuminate the moral situation and how we can help our children [and ourselves] face it effectively. Can virtue be taught? Socrates answered “yes” and “no.” But figuring out what that means remains a continuing puzzle for us human beings." The following bio has been considerably shortened in the interest of time: Dr.Howard B. Radest is Dean Emeritus of The Humanist Institute and a member of the National Council of Ethical Culture Leaders. He is a consulting member [emeritus] of the SC Medical Assn Ethics Committee; consultant to the Center for Preparedness, School of Public Health, University of South Carolina and a former member of the Board of the Association for Moral Education. He is a member of the Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophic Thought; serves on the Advisory Committee of the Kochhar Humanist Education Center’s Advisory Committee of the American Humanist Association; and is Board Chair of The Ethical Community Charter School in Jersey City. He has served as Director [Headmaster] of The Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City; Professor of Philosophy and Director of the School of American Studies at Ramapo College; Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Fairleigh Dickenson University and at The Union Graduate School; Executive Director of The American Ethical Union (1963-1969); Co-Chair of The International Humanist and Ethical Union; and Leader of the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, NJ from 1956 to 1963. He is on the editorial boards of The Humanist and Religious Humanism magazines. Among his many books is "Toward Common Ground, a history of the Ethical Culture Movement in the U.S.", which was published in 1968. Howard recently moved back to northern New Jersey from South Carolina. |
| Location: | 687 Larch Ave, Teaneck, NJ |
| Author: | Bergen ECS Programming Committee  |
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