In 'Reclaiming Virtue,' I argue that we have had an element missing in moral education. That element is 'affect.' Affect is simply the technical word for feeling or emotion.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.
Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.
I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.
Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
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