Philosophy Social Aspects category: 5622 books
Educational Experiences of Hidden Homeless Teenagers
Living Doubled-Up
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Homeless youth face countless barriers that limit their ability to complete a high school diploma and transition to postsecondary education. Their experiences vary widely based on family, access to social services, and where they live. More than half of the 1.5 million homeless youth in America are...
Visual Representations in Science
Concept and Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Visual representations (photographs, diagrams, etc.) play crucial roles in scientific processes. They help, for example, to communicate research results and hypotheses to scientific peers as well as to the lay audience. In genuine research activities they are used as evidence or as surrogates for...
Care in Education
Teaching with Understanding and Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This philosophical commentary explores the meaning and significance of care in education, demonstrating how teaching with care enriches the art and soul of pedagogy. Wilde draws upon Western and Eastern philosophies that envision an integrated image of care to illuminate the value of cultivating understanding...
Transhumanismo
La búsqueda tecnológica del mejoramiento humano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 28, 2017
El transhumanismo es uno de los movimientos filosóficos y culturales que más atención ha atraído en los últimos años. Preconiza el uso libre de la tecnología para el mejoramiento del ser humano, tanto en sus capacidades físicas, como en las mentales, emocionales y morales, trascendiendo todos...
Huérfanos de Sofía
Elogio y defensa de la enseñanza de la filosofía
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Huérfanos de Sofía denuncia el desamparo institucional a que se encuentra sometido ese "amor al saber" en que consiste la filosofía. Es un ensayo colectivo en el que profesionales del ámbito de la filosofía toman su quehacer cotidiano como atalaya desde la que esbozar la naturaleza...
What Would Nietzsche Do?
How the greatest philosophers would solve your everyday problems
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
What Would Nietzsche Do? uses the key ideas of more than 80 philosophical thinkers, past and present, to shine new light onto today's everyday problems.
Ever wondered if Schopenhauer could fix your broken heart? How Heraclitus might help you if you lost your phone? Given the chance, would Foucault...
by Federico Leoni
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 22, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 22, 2014
L’idiota e la lettera è un piccolo libro su un testo sterminato: L’idiota della famiglia, monumentale biografia di Gustave Flaubert, quasi un testamento filosofico per il suo autore, Jean-Paul Sartre. I temi e le ossessioni sono quelle intorno a cui Sartre lavora per tutta una vita. La nascita...
by Daniel C. Dennett
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers “yes!” Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly...
by Marcus Aurelius,Meric Casaubon (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Meditations is the title of a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy.Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. It is possible that large portions of the work were written in...
Pedagogy of Freedom
Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2000
This book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life-an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live.
Educating for Character
How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Calls for renewed moral education in America's schools, offering dozens of programs schools can adopt to teach students respect, responsibility, hard work, and other values that should not be left to parents to teach.
You Are Not Special
… And Other Encouragements
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
A profound expansion of David McCullough, Jr.'s popular commencement speech—a call to arms against a prevailing, narrow, conception of success viewed by millions on YouTube—You Are (Not) Special is a love letter to students and parents as well as a guide to a truly fulfilling, happy life.
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by Sven Günther
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Master's Thesis from the year 2000 in the subject Social Pedagogy / Social Work, Glasgow Caledonian University, language: English, abstract: In November 1999 the Sunday Mail ran a story Orkney in new kid-sex scandal. Within the article, the social workers at Orkney were accused of doing nothing because...
by Desmond Clarke, René Descartes
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 1999
This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. Includes DISCOURSE ON METHOD, the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scientific...