Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
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For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life, &c.
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An irreverent critical lexicon of academic life and culture
The university: The very name evokes knowledge, culture, and the magnificently universal ambition at the heart of this essential institution. Bastions of free inquiry and a free society, engines of social transformation and economic...
Schopenhauer’s Broken World-View
Colours and Ethics between Kant and Goethe
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Schopenhauer's philosophy, at first sight so beautifully rounded, upon analysis reveals itself as the secret arena of two conflicting world-views. The present analysis considers the conflict by confronting Schopenhauer as a `disciple-of-sorts of Kant' with Schopenhauer as `Goethe's one-time collaborator...
Counterrevolution and Repression in the Politics of Education
At the Midnight of Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Counterrevolution and Repression in the Politics of Education revisits the ideas of Herbert Marcuse in order to examine how his observations on counterrevolution are applicable to present conditions in politics, particularly those pertaining to the politics of education. While Marcuse’s influence...
Reconstructing 'Education' through Mindful Attention
Positioning the Mind at the Center of Curriculum and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
This book reconstructs the idea and practice of education. Rather than conceiving of education as a process we undergo in which our minds are shaped by a social vision, Oren Ergas turns this notion of education on its head, arguing instead that we ourselves construct education. The multitude of problems...
Rethinking Order
After the Laws of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book presents a radical new picture of natural order. The Newtonian idea of a cosmos ruled by universal and exceptionless laws has been superseded; replaced by a conception of nature as a realm of diverse powers, potencies, and dispositions, a 'dappled world'. There is order in nature, but it...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
What roles do different kinds of knowledge play in medicine? What roles should they play? What standards (epistemic, ethical, practical) should be met before knowledge is used to develop policy or practice? Medical decision-making, whether in the clinic or at the policy level, can have serious and...
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
This lecture is part of the collection "The Foundations of Human Experience" by Rudolf Steiner. Steiner (1861-1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. He gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher. At the beginning of the 20th century,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Evolutionary ethics - the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification - began in the nineteenth century with the work of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, but was subsequently criticized as an example of the naturalistic fallacy. In recent decades, however, evolutionary...
by Michael Ruse
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Does human life have any meaning? Does the question even make sense today? For centuries, the question of the meaning or purpose of human life was assumed by scholars and theologians to have a religious answer: life has meaning because humans were made in the image of a good god. In the 19th century,...
Psychology as a Moral Science
Perspectives on Normativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
What does morality have to do with psychology in a value-neutral, postmodern world? According to a provocative new book, everything.
Taking exception with current ideas in the mainstream (including cultural, evolutionary, and neuropsychology) as straying from the discipline’s ethical foundations,...
by Alan Woods, Ted Grant
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
The achievements of science and technology during the past century are unparalleled in history. They provide the potential for the solution to all the problems faced by the planet, and equally for its total destruction. Allegedly scientific theories are being used to "prove" that criminality...
The Moral Sense in the Communal Significance of Life
Investigations in Phenomenological Praxeology: Psychiatric Therapeutics, Medical Ethics und Social Praxis Within the Life- and Communal World
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
From antiquity to the present, schools of some form have, in one way or other, been involved in the material and symbolic reproduction of societies. Such diachronic resilience, along with the synchronic omnipresence of schooling often makes schools appear as natural, self-evident and unavoidable....
Differences and similarities - Social work in chosen european countries
Social work in chosen european countries
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Social Pedagogy / Social Work, grade: 1,3, University of Lüneburg (Fakultät I: Bildungs-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften), course: Internationale Arbeitsfelder für Pädagogen, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The majority...