Duke University Press will soon publish Peter Euben’s and Elizabeth Kiss’ edited volume, Debating Moral Education. The book includes a three-way debate between Euben/Kiss, Stanley Fish, and Stanley Hauerwas, along with a wide-ranging set of essays on the meaning and role of moral education in today’s colleges and universities.

At a time when every major social institution – business, government, the church, the press, the army, the schools – is plagued by high-profile ethics scandals, a new debate is brewing about what role, if any, colleges and universities can and should have in moral education.

On the one hand, there has been a “return to ethics” in the academy. Influential voices argue that ethics is central to the mission of higher education, that colleges and universities shape our students’ characters and shape, as well as reflect, our society’s ethics in multiple ways. But other, no less influential voices dismiss the work of ethics champions. They argue that the university ought to eschew any attempt to shape students’ characters beyond trying to make them into good researchers; otherwise it is bound to fall into dangerous forms of dogmatism or partisanship.

This volume will showcase these debates by offering a set of thoughtful and divergent perspectives around four issues/questions/themes:
* A History of the Present: Is Moral Education against the Age?
* What Should We Teach and How?
* Moral Education and the Hidden Curriculum
* Our Institutions as Moral Actors: the Ivory Tower & the World