Ethical education should help students become more sensitive to the perspectives and experiences of others. However, the field is dominated by the teaching of moral values as a subject-matter, or by the fostering of character traits in students, or by moral reasoning. This book …
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With contributions from renowned global scholars, this book argues that ethical education should be directed at human relationships and help students become caring. This approach goes beyond the usual focus on character, virtues and moral codes. The chapters illustrate how this …
In teaching modern philosophy, the absence of a comprehensive secondary text results in much class time spent on clarifying the ideas of the philosophers, leaving little room for philosophical discussion of wider issues. Bacon to Kant was developed as a response to the classroom…
"Well-being studies is an exciting and relatively new multi-disciplinary field, with data being gathered from different domains in order to improve social policies. In its reliance on a truncated account of well-being based implicitly on neo-classical economic assumptions, howev…
"Well-being studies is an exciting and relatively new multi-disciplinary field, with data being gathered from different domains in order to improve social policies. In its reliance on a truncated account of well-being based implicitly on neo-classical economic assumptions, howev…
"Well-being studies is an exciting and relatively new multi-disciplinary field, with data being gathered from different domains in order to improve social policies. In its reliance on a truncated account of well-being based implicitly on neo-classical economic assumptions, howev…
The philosophy of the modern period, which stretches from roughly 1600-1800, is one of the most interesting and urgent for us to study. During this period, humanity's conceptions of itself and the universe altered radically mainly because of the rise of science and the implicati…
This historically organized book presents a holistic picture of the development of modern philosophy. It contains chapters on each of the major thinkers of this period ? Galileo, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Newton, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. ON MODERN PHILO…
