Many sociological, historical and cultural stories can be and have already been told about why it is that parents in post-industrial, western societies face an often overwhelming array of advice on how to bring up their children. At the same time, there have been several philosophical treatments of the legal, moral and political issues surrounding issues of procreation, the rights of children and the duties of parents, as well as some philosophical accounts of the shifts in our underlying conceptualization of childhood and adult-child relationships. While this book partly builds on the...
Many sociological, historical and cultural stories can be and have already been told about why it is that parents in post-industrial, western socie...
The matter of simply living together, on both a global and a local scale, is complicated by the cultural, economic, religious, technological, and ecological challenges that we face in today s world. An educational-philosophical take on these complexities translates into reflections on, and attempts to answer, the questions that these challenges raise. How is the older generation to introduce a new generation into today s world and to prepare it for the world to come? What sense can be given to such introduction and preparation ? Or in the more general terms of Friedrich Schleiermacher,...
The matter of simply living together, on both a global and a local scale, is complicated by the cultural, economic, religious, technological, and e...
