Hsün Tzu Gentleman

As a future teacher, it will be part of my job to increase my students’ moral reasoning. Moral reasoning deals with how individuals think about moral issues. Lawrence Kohlberg developed stages of moral reasoning which researchers use to assess an individual. According to Steinberg (2014), the adults in an adolescent’s life can impact their moral development. Therefore, as their teacher, I will conduct activities in my classroom, such as Collaborative Reasoning, Think-Pair-Share, a line activity, and an online discussion board, which will foster my students’ moral development. In addition, I will monitor my students’ growth by conducting a pre-assessment as well as a final assessment. Through my classroom activities, I expect my students to

A foundation in ethics is a critical tool for any education administrator because of the necessity to make sound decisions which ultimately affect the lives of students. In their book, The Ethics of School Administration (2005), Strike, Haller, and Soltis provide a general overview of the various schools of ethical reasoning. They use engaging case studies to teach ethical reasoning concepts in a way to which every-day practitioners can relate. They then take their teachings a step further by presenting disputes of the issues from multiple perspectives, introducing critical concepts that are necessary to understand in order to process the situations presented in each case, and giving analyses of the cases. Strike, Haller, and Soltis’s methods are pertinent to educators because

During the course of living human being are subjected to many controversial arguments and ethical stations. Education in concept of ethical reasoning and in the fundamentals of the principles are important for one to be skilled in ethical reasoning. Ethical reasoning is a very important element in human nature of living either professionally or individually. Ethical reasoning offers critics with the capability to represent viewpoints, ideas and make judgement. Moreover ethical reasoning enable critics’ to consciously give examination for them to reach a solution that does not harm anybody else. Ethical reasoning can be defined as arguing the wrong and the right of human behavior.

education, a student can access their toolbox of senses and resources as they adventure as a puzzle piece of society. Some people who do not pursue higher education are therefore not as well equipped. As Plato (306) would say, “I think that he would rather suffer anything than entertain these false notions and live in this miserable

He writes that “the learning of the gentleman enters his ear, clings to his mind, spreads through his four limbs, and manifests itself in his actions” (Tzu). Furthermore, “the Gentleman” honors ritual, for if he does not, he “is no more than a desultory pedant” (Tzu). Lastly, “the Gentleman” only speaks of learning with people who are “respectful”, “reasonable”, and “gentle” (Tzu); furthering Hsun Tzu’s point that there is more required than just accumulating knowledge. John Henry Newman’s contrary definition of the gentleman leads him to the belief that the accumulation of knowledge is by itself a worthy pursuit. He quotes Cicero, who considered “knowledge the very first object to which we are attracted, after the supply of our physical wants” (Newman), making it inherently important. Newman calls this kind of knowledge, knowledge for knowledge’s sake, “Liberal” (Newman) knowledge. Liberal knowledge, as opposed to “servile” (Newman) knowledge, is knowledge with no end other than knowledge itself. And while Newman did not guarantee moral or spiritual growth to “the Gentleman”, he did say that “the Gentleman” does attain other positive attributes through his learning; namely “a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind,” and “a

Zhu Xi and Aquinas both empower learning as a means of self-cultivation, but they approach it in different ways. Zhu Xi encourages learning of one’s surroundings in order to know good from bad, to know and embrace one’s culture and environment. Aquinas stresses learning from one’s nature because there are many examples the king can adopt to his own ruling, whether it is the nature of a nourishing father or sailor on a ship. These are two different types of learning, one stresses active learning and the other learning by example. Learning leads to practice and self-improvement.

My personal experiences during this course are ones that will provided a solid ethical backbone throughout my personal and professional career. Before this course began, I knew what ethics was, that I didn’t know was all the variables that related to ethics. This course provided a solid overview of the variables that should weighted in all ethical decision making. Also provided with this course were multiple perspectives into ethical discourse. A variety of activities allowed me to grow ethically and will make me a better professional.

In the olden day, children studied the Four Books in schools, which are Confucian Analects, the Book of Mencius, The Great Learning, and the Doctrine of the Mean. According to Zhu Xi, a philosopher, there is a diverse sequence to read the Four Books, not the sequence that shows above. He suggested the Great Learning to be the first book to study, because it sets pattern and outlines structure. Next, the Confucian Analects should be comprehending, since it is the fundamental knowledge, so it is advocated by him. Then, the Book of Mencius is examined, which help children

Mo Tzu’s Against Music is not against Music: How Mo Tzu critiques early Chinese Class based society in their Musical Practices

“The most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent. In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. This was Rousseau’s opinion respecting men: I extend it to women.”

In this article, it states that the current study uses a sense making model and thinking strategies identified in earlier research to examine ethical decision making. Caughron, Antes, Stemark, Thiel, Wang, and Mumford states that using a sample of 163 undergraduates, a low-fidelity simulation approach is used to study the effects personal involvement (in causing the problem and personal involvement in experiencing the outcomes of the problem) could have on the use of cognitive reasoning strategies that have been shown

“ethical dilemmas are commonplace, complex, and require critical thinking skills that are honed through practice, and practice, and more practice. Airth-Kindree, N. M., & Kirk horn, L. C. (2016).

I chose to develop my Ethical Understanding Capability. This is because ethical issues is about right and wrong, as well as what is the best society and what is the best for individual, which is what I want to focus. Besides, this is a chance for me to be honest in experiences and decision-making, in which I will be objective and will not let my perspective affect the results. Furthermore, I will respect the rights, opinions and decisions of others when interviewing because my topic is sensitive and personal. I hope that through this research project, my capability will develop, in which I will respond to the world’s issue more realistically and objectively.

Finally, Confucius criticizes those who place a lot of emphasis in learning theory and not actions, according to Confucius actions are more important because they are the foundation for becoming a gentleman, however theory is usually only learned for the purposes of achieving an official position so that one can have fine foods and comforts (Confucius 4.8). I completely agree with that because I have noticed that a lot of stuff that we learn while in college is useless when we go to the real world and most of us just do it so that we can obtain a diploma and hopefully obtain a better job, maybe we should focus more on learning about actions that can actually help us on our daily lives in the real

Ethics is a subject that deals with people’s thoughts and actions, and whether or not these thoughts and actions are considered good or bad. The head represents the Way of Knowledge that is reason, while the heart represents the Way of Knowledge that is emotion. Many factors influence ethical thinking, and the use of reason and emotions are two of these factors that I am going to discuss. Many ethical decisions rely on logical thinking rather than emotional thinking, which is what I am going to establish in the following paragraphs. Logical thinking is more reliable than emotional thinking when dealing with ethics because it does not take into account any personal bias towards a situation. I will consider only these two specific Ways of Knowledge when evaluating whether or not ethics is more a matter of the head or the heart.