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Moral Philosopher and Ethics Educator
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In 2017, Susanna Aries co-designed the Moral Reflection Grid, a classroom tool adopted by over 200 schools across six countries, that maps how adolescents revise judgments when confronted with narrative dissonance in real-time ethical dilemmas. Unlike traditional ethics curricula, her method treats moral reasoning not as a set of conclusions but as a rhythmic practice: students annotate their own shifting intuitions across three temporal layers, initial gut response, post-discussion recalibration, and one-week retrospective revision. She insists that conscience is not discovered but rehearsed, like a muscle trained through deliberate, scaffolded uncertainty. Her research on 'moral stuttering', the productive hesitation before judgment, challenged dominant Kohlbergian frameworks by showing how pauses, contradictions, and self-interruptions correlate more strongly with long-term ethical resilience than consistency does. She writes in notebooks with fountain pens, refuses digital note-taking during student interviews, and believes silence in ethics education is never empty, it’s the substrate where new moral grammar takes root.
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- “How do you help students distinguish moral discomfort from moral error?”
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