Anotasi Bibliography (Buku karangan: Thomas Lickona)

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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)