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Ruth Cigman, Michael Hand - Cherishing and the Good Life of Learning, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Del i serien Bloomsbury Philosophy of Education

Cherishing and the Good Life of Learning

Ethics, Education, Upbringing

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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Ruth Cigman is Honorary Senior Research Associate in Philosophy of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.

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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.

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