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

Cherishing and the Good Life of Learning : Ethics, Education, Upbringing / Ruth Cigman.

"What is a good human life? A life of duty? Virtue? Happiness? This book weaves a path through traditional answers. We live well, suggests the author, not primarily by pursuing goods for ourselves, but by cherishing other people and guiding them towards lives of cherishing. We cherish objects t...

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Main Author: Cigman, Ruth, 1951- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Series:Bloomsbury philosophy of education.
Subjects:
Conduct of life.
Education > Philosophy.
ethics (philosophical concept)
Philosophy & theory of education.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
Conduct of life
Education > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Part One We Need to Talk About Children; 1 A Sense of Moral Crisis; 1957; Rationality in teaching; Cherishing children; Real teaching; How should we proceed?; 2 Ministering to the Good; Dramas of unlearning; Teaching, learning and conversation; Education, practices and the acquisition of virtue; The idea of a ministrative practice; A Wittgensteinian reminder; Part Two Enhancing Children; 3 Should We Try to Make Children Happy?; The positivity turn; The science of happiness
  • Deepening understandingWanting happiness on behalf of another; 'Happiness is not the goal of life'; Happy moments; What is wrong with unhappiness?; 4 Should We Equip Children for Twenty-First-Century Life?; What's the point of school?; Is emotional education risky?; What do children need and what do schools provide?; Disciplines and Discipline; 5 Should We Promote Flourishing Through Virtue?; Aristotelian Character Education; People and kinds of people; How wise was Solon, really?; Closing remarks: Thinking about reason and knowledge; 6 Should We Foster Respect Through Inclusion?
  • Special conversational needsWhat is inclusion?; Plumbing problems; This person, that person; Part Three Cherishing Children; 7 Humanness and the Difficulty of Reality; The nature of the phenomenon; The difficulty of reality; Thinking about infancy; 'A Tremendous Development'; 8 Aristotle and the Transformation of Emotion; Difficulties of reality?; Aristotle on beginnings; Phronesis and its temptations; A Dystopian vision; Conversational responsiveness revisited; 9 An Ethic of Cherishing; The good-enough parent as moral exemplar; How much reality can we bear?; Reflections on method
  • How can we talk about people?A note about language; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

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