Cherishing and the Good Life of Learning

Ethics, Education, Upbringing

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av Ruth Cigman, Michael Hand

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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 too – the planet, my grandfather’s watch – and practices like music-making to which we are personally drawn. In this work of ‘populated philosophy’ (copiously illustrated by literary and ‘real life’ examples), a cherishing life is presented as hard and irreducibly individual. The idea of cherishing, says the author, points towards intimate, unreasonable layers of the ethical life, as well as the deepening of wisdom and connection. It also points towards incomparable satisfactions, reminding us who we are and who we want to be.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-08-09
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt474 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury Philosophy of Education
Antal sidor224
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781474278850

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Series Editor’s ForewordAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: We Need to Talk About Children1. 1. A Sense of Moral Crisis2. 2. Ministering to the Good Part II: Enhancing Children3. 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 Children7. 7. Humanness and the Difficulty of Reality 8. 8. Aristotle and the Transformation of Emotion9. 9. An Ethic of CherishingBibliographyIndex

Ruth Cigman develops a style of thinking that attempts to get to the pith of what may be most at stake for children inside and outside classrooms. Her book will be of special interest to teachers and parents who are sensitive to the singularity of… children and the daunting difficulty that their lives often present to themselves and to others… Cigman deftly exposes the misplaced confidence driving several currently favoured reform agendas. And she shows why helping young people to thrive may require us not to ward off troubling intuitions but (in Iris Murdoch’s words, which she quotes) to ‘complicate, alter and deepen’ them. This is a rare and welcome kind of philosophical writing… engaged and engaging, deeply humane and vividly persuasive.