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Anotasi Bibliography dari buku karangan Thomas Lickona
With remarkable
swiftness, that has changed. Escalating moral problems in
society-ranging from greed and dishonesty to violent crime to
self-destructive behaviors such as drugs abuse and suicide-are
bringing about new consensus. Now, from all across the country, from
private citizens and public organizations, from liberals and
conservatives alike, comes a summons to the schools: Take up the role
of moral teachers of our children.
(Thomas Lickona, 1991: 3-4)
Character so conceived
has three interrelated parts: moral knowing, moral feeling, and moral
behavior. Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the
good, and doing the good, habits of the mind, habits of the heart,
and habits of action. All three are necessary for leading a moral
life, all three make up moral maturity. When we think about the kind
of character we want for our children, it's clear that we want them
to be able to judge what is right, care deeply about what is right,
and then do what they believe to be right, even in the face of
pressure from without and temptation from within.
(Thomas Lickona, 1991: 51)
Moral action is, to a
large extent, the outcome of the other two parts of character. If
people have the moral qualities of intellect and emotion we have just
examined, they are likely to do what they know and feel to be right.
There are times, however,
when we may know what we should do, feel we should do it, but still
fail to translate thought and feeling into action. To understand
fully what moves a person to act morally or keeps a person from doing
so we need to look at three more aspects of character: competence,
will, and habit.
(Thomas Lickona, 1991:
61)
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