Desire and Human Flourishing: Perspectives from Positive Psychology, Moral Education and Virtue Ethi

Part I: Key Concepts of Education of Desire

Chapter 1: To be what one desires to be. The notion of habit and its educational value.

Chapter 2: The Role of Desire in Action.

Chapter 3: Education of Desire for Flourishing.

Chapter 4: The Joy of Doing Good and Character Education.

Chapter 5: Desire and Freedom: Are We Responsible for Our Emotions?

Chapter 6: The ethical value of motivation as an operative desire.

Chapter 7: Harmonising reason and emotions: Common paths from Plato to contemporary trends in psychology.

Chapter 8: Desire and Beauty.

Chapter 9: The Education of Desire: Moderation or Reinforcement?

Chapter 10: Desire and Sensitivity.

 

Part II: Fundamental Authors on Education of Desire

Chapter 11: Desire and madness: Platonic dialogues on education.

Chapter 12: Moral education as education of desire in Plato's Symposium.

Chapter 13: Educating desire in Aristotle.

Chapter 14: The right desire?

Chapter 15: The Stoics on the Education of Desire.

Chapter 16: The Desire in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa.

Chapter 17: The salvation of desire: Saint Augustine's perspective.

Chapter 18: The Education of Desire according to Aquinas.

Chapter 19: Attention and Education: Key Ideas from Charles S. Peirce.

Chapter 20: Desire in Freud.

 

Part III: Education of Desire Applied

Chapter 21: Psychological key to educating desire: Healthy Family Lifestyles.

Chapter 22: The Education of Desire and the Use of ICT.

Chapter 23: Desire and the emotion of shame.

Chapter 24: The emotional openness of wonder and admiration to educating our moral desires.

Chapter 25: Advertising and desire.

Chapter 26: Pedagogical reflection on desire and perspectives for an education of identity.

Chapter 27: Contemplation, learning, teaching through love.

Chapter 28: A way out of the dialectics of love and desire as the clue to an adequate education of desire.

Chapter 29: Rectification of Appetite' as Education of Desire within 'Moral' Virtue.