07. ETHICAL INQUIRY: Instructional Manual to Accompany Lisa

Authors

Matthew Lipman, Montclair State University
Ann Margaret Sharp, Montclair State University

Files

ISBN

0-8191-4785-0

Target Grades

Middle School

Publication Date

1985

Publisher

Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children

Number of Pages

637

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Summary

The aim of this program is to provide students with the tools they need to deliberate well about ethical issues. These tools include anticipating consequences, taking all the circumstances into account, giving good reasons, universalizing, being consistent, and projecting ideals of the people they would like to be and the world they would like to live in. In addition to the use of such tools, good ethical inquiry also involves an understanding of metaphysical, ethical, social, and aesthetic concepts. For this reasons, ETHICAL INQUIRY provides a host of introductions to concepts such as self, time, personhood, reciprocity, and freedom, as well as hundreds of discussion plans and exercises encouraging students to probe these concepts. This manual is a valuable guide to facilitating ethical inquiry with adolescents in ways that enable them to avoid both dogmatism and naïve relativism, to reach reflective equilibrium in their ethical deliberations.

Excerpt

DISCUSSION PLAN: Do animals and children have rights?

1. Assuming you have a pet animal, would you have a right to starve it, even though you had plenty of food to give it?
2. Does your pet have a right to an education?
3. Do people have the right to eat you for food?
4. Do people have the right to eat animals for food?
5. Should wild animals be protected from hunters?
6. Do children need protection from people who might hurt them?
7. Do children have a right to their own thoughts?
8. If children have rights (such as to be clothed and fed), does this mean that adults have duties (such as to feed and clothe their children)?
9. If adults have duties towards animals, would it follow that animals have rights?
10. Do children have a right to discuss whether or not they have rights?

Editions

• Lipman, Matthew, Ann Margaret Sharp, and Frederick S. Oscanyan (1985) Ethical Inquiry: Instructional manual to accompany Lisa, 2nd Edition. Montclair, NJ: Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children.
• Lipman, Matthew, Ann Margaret Sharp, and Frederick S. Oscanyan (1977) Ethical Inquiry: Instructional manual to accompany Lisa, 1st Edition. Montclair, NJ: Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children.

Translations

• Catalan translation (Spain): Lipman, Matthew, Ann Margaret Sharp, and Frederick S. Oscanyan (2006/2015) Recerca ètica : manual d'instruccions per acompanyar el Lisa, Segona edició digital. Translated by Josep-Maria Terricabras. Revised, adapted and expanded by Irene de Puig with the collaboration of Glòria Arbonès, Emili Azuara and Jordi Nomen. Girona, Spain: Eumo Editorial, Universitat de Girona. Available online here: Ètica i convivència.
• Chinese translation (PRC): Lipman, Matthew, Ann Margaret Sharp, and Frederick S. Oscanyan (1997) 伦理探究 [Ethical Inquiry]. Translated by 周庆行 (Zhou Qingxing) and 郭敬谊 (Guo Jingyi). 太原: 山西教育出版社 [Tai yuan: Shan xi jiao yu chu ban she].
• Chinese translation (ROC): Lipman, Matthew, Ann Margaret Sharp, and Frederick S. Oscanyan (1990) 思考舞台 [Thinking Stage]. Translated by 楊茂秀 (Maoxiu Yang). 臺北市: 毛毛蟲兒童哲學基金會 [Taipei City, Republic of China: Caterpillar Children's Philosophy Foundation].
• French translation (Belgium): Lipman, Matthew and Ann Margaret Sharp (2011) Lisa: Recherche éthique. Translated by Nicole Decostre, preface by Marcel Voisin. Brussels, Belgium: Peter Lang. ISBN: 9789052017587. Available for purchase here.
• French translation (Quebec, Canada): Lipman, Matthew, Ann Margaret Sharp, and Frederick S. Oscanyan (1993) La recherche éthique: guide d'accompagnement de Lisa. [Need translator.] Québec City, Québec, Canada: Faculté de philosophie, Université Laval. [Need ISBN] Available for purchase here.
• German translation (Austria): Lipman, Matthew (2022) Ethische Untersuchungen: Begleitendes Manual zu „Lisa“ [Ethical Investigations: Companion Manual to “Lisa”]. Translated by Daniela G. Camhy. [Place of publication unknown]: Academia. doi.org/10.5771/9783896659897
• Italian translation (Italy): Lipman, Matthew, Ann Margaret Sharp, and Frederick S. Oscanyan (2015) Lisa. L'indagine Etica. Manuale. Translated and adapted by Alessandro Volpone. Naples, Italy: Liguori Editore. ISBN 9788820766139. Available for purchase here.
• Korean translation (ROK) by Chosik Lee and Jinwhan Park. [Unpublished.]
• Lithuanian translation (Lithuania): Lipman, Matthew, Ann Margaret Sharp, and Frederick S. Oscanyan (2000) Liza. Etinis tyrimas. Mokytojo knyga. [Lisa. Ethical Inquiry. Teacher’s Manual.] Translated by Leonarda Jekentaitė. Vilnius: Kronta, 292 pp.
• Polish (Poland): Lipman, Matthew, Ann Margaret Sharp, and Frederick S. Oscanyan (1999) Dociekania etyczne [Ethical inquiries]. Translated by Dorota Szmajda and Jacek Kucharczyk. Warsaw, Poland: Fundacja Edukacja dla Demokracji [Education for Democracy Foundation]. ISBN 9788386304059.
• Portuguese translation (Brazil): Lipman, Matthew, Ann Margaret Sharp, and Frederick S. Oscanyan (1995) Luísa: manual do professor "investigação ética". Translated and adapted by Ana Luiza F. Falcone. São Paulo, Brazil: Difusão de Educação e Cultura.
• Spanish translation (Spain): Lipman, Matthew, Ann Margaret Sharp, and Frederick S. Oscanyan (1988) Investigación Ética. Manual del profesor para acompañar a Lisa. Translated and adapted by Félix García Moriyón, María Eugenia Laynez Lerdeña, and Ignacio Pedrero Sancho. Madrid, Spain: Ediciones de la Torre. ISBN 9788486587505. Available for purchase here.

Keywords

education, ethics, ethical inquiry, middle school curriculum, moral education, philosophy, philosophy for children

Disciplines

Applied Ethics | Education | Philosophy

Recommended Citation

Lipman, Matthew and Ann Margaret Sharp (1985) Ethical Inquiry: Instructional Manual to Accompany Lisa, Second Edition. Montclair, New Jersey: Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children.