Islam And The West, the new book from Virtue Ethics Foundation co-founder, Ali Azam, is out now and available on Amazon. Muslims in the West are being perceived as ‘others’ and a barrier to modernity. The effects of this in recent years have...
Read moreWhy human dignity is so important for students – and how you can help!
There are so many pressing issues in the UK today – racism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, misogyny, knife and gun crimes. Even more significantly, there seems to be a lack of concern about others, due to...
Read moreWhy the current inclusion of character education in the Ofsted framework is insufficient
At the Virtue Ethics Foundation, we believe both the purpose of character education itself, and the purpose behind advocating character education need to be appropriately conceived and clearly identified. We take a philosophical position that we...
Read moreThe universal language of sociojusticism
The divide and schisms in the political spheres have all become but a source of fragmenting humanity. There is the left and the right; liberalism and conservatism; modernism and postmodernism; individualism and collectivism...
Read moreIs there such a thing as human dignity in 2021?
The second half of the 20th century, by most accounts, is remembered as a period of hope in which profound lessons were learned with a deep sense of humility. This drove real human progression, particularly in the endeavours of the...
Read moreCan virtue ethics help society in 2021?
In a previous blog, we discussed what ‘character education’ is – a nurturing process that aims to support and develop young people’s good human traits, such as: respect empathy honesty gratitude courage forgiveness patience compassion and...
Read moreWhat do we really mean by character education – and why is it so important?
Reading, writing and arithmetic – all vitally important skills for our children to master and taught consciously and subconsciously from a very early age. However, the teaching of qualities such as compassion, courage, fairness, and respect...
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