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According to the Aristotelian tradition of moral thinking and acting, any parent or teacher who takes moral education seriously should be engaged in the practice of cultivating the child’s feelings – his passions, inclinations, emotions, appetites, pains and pleasures. Special attention to the development of the child’s affective life in the context of moral education is not only typical of Aristotle himself, but also a salient feature of the educational writings of other representatives of the Aristotelian tradition, from the classical work of Aquinas to the recent work of Alasdair MacIntyre.
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Steutel, J., Spiecker, B. (2011). Cultivating Sentimental Dispositions Through Aristotelian Habituation1. In: Ruyter, D.J.d., Miedema, S. (eds) Moral Education and Development. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-716-5_8
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