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Education in Critical Thinking or in Virtues?: responding to Harvey Siegel / ¿Educación en Pensamiento Crítico o en Virtudes?: réplica a Harvey Siegel.
Education in critical thinking or in virtues?: responding to Harvey Siegel. What to choose in education: critical thinking or intellectual virtues? This paper reflects on the central concern of education, given the decline of reasoning and the growing interest in the epistemology of virtue. To this end, the approaches of two iconic references for educational scholarship are analysed: Israel Scheffler and Harvey Siegel. Siegel's approach to the proposed problem is justified and the following reply is put forward: even if virtues cannot take the place of critical thinking in education and even if it is possible to think critically without virtues, would virtues not have something to contribute if we want to continue to advocate critical thinking as an educational desideratum? Keywords: Educational Philosophy. Moral Education. Principles of Education. Epistemology. Rationality. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ¿Educación en pensamiento crítico o en virtudes?: réplica a Harvey Siegel. ¿Qué elegir en la educación: pensamiento crítico o virtudes intelectuales? El artículo reflexiona sobre la preocupación central de la educación, dado el decaimiento del raciocinio y el creciente interés por la epistemología de la virtud. Para ello, se analizan los planteamientos de dos referentes icónicos para la erudición educativa: Israel Scheffler y Harvey Siegel. Se justifica cómo aborda Siegel la problemática propuesta y se plantea la siguiente réplica: aunque las virtudes no puedan ocupar el lugar del pensamiento crítico en la educación y aunque sea posible pensar críticamente sin contar con las virtudes, ¿acaso estas no tendrían algo que aportar si queremos continuar abogando por el pensamiento crítico como desiderátum educativo? Palabras clave: Filosofía de la Educación. Educación Moral. Principios de Educación. Epistemología. Racionalidad. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOW TO CITE / CÓMO CITAR: Castillo, P. (2025). Education in Critical Thinking or in Virtues?: responding to Harvey Siegel / ¿Educación en Pensamiento Crítico o en Virtudes?: réplica a Harvey Siegel. Educação & Realidade, 50, 1-14.
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