Cherishing and the Good Life of Learning: Ethics, Education, Upbringing

ISBN-13: 9781474278850 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Ruth Cigman; Michael Hand

Opis

How can we make children 'better'? Better learners, better human beings... The question is as old as the hills and intensified by modernity: global terror, bullying and violence in schools, not to mention youthful insolence to which we lack a collective response. Be good? scoffs the young millennial. What for?
Curricular reform, radical inclusion, scientific enhancement: the book opposes these fashionable solutions. With a word like 'better' as our focus of concern, it is argued that philosophy in its original sense - a devotion to the ideal of wisdom rather than policy imperatives - is urgently needed. How should we live? asked Aristotle, and his ideas still resonate: not by a rule book but by virtuous tendencies and habits. But his focus on the well-raised child as a candidate for moral education betrays a limited understanding of the possibilities of emotional transformation. How can we help children for whom the education of habits has been neglected or gone awry? For help with this question, Ruth Cigman turns to post-romantic thinkers, literary and psychoanalytical as well as philosophical. These bring a vision of what she calls relations of cherishing, and the book's central claim is that we must cherish people wisely if we wish to guide them towards good lives.

Spis treści

Series Editor’s Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: We Need to Talk About Children 1. 1. A Sense of Moral Crisis 2. 2. Ministering to the Good Part II: Enhancing Children 3. 3. Should We Try to Make Children Happy? 4. 4. Should We Equip Children for Twenty-First-Century Life? 5. 5. Should we Promote Flourishing through Virtue? 6. 6. Should we Foster Respect through Inclusion? Part III: Cherishing Children 7. 7. Humanness and the Difficulty of Reality 8. 8. Aristotle and the Transformation of Emotion 9. 9. An Ethic of Cherishing Bibliography Index