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Values --- Values. --- Algemene ethiek --- Acqui 2006
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Values --- Social norms --- Symbolism
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This book brings together eighteen essays on education and matters of evaluative concern to which it gives rise. The essays range from discussions of basic issues on the nature of education and the importance of its two sides, teaching and learning, to practical issues that bear on curricular development. Several of the authors focus on liberal education and its place in a liberal state. Some authors take up the topic of moral education, while others examine the notion of multicultural education. Broad social issues of educational opportunity and affirmative action are also considered. A number of authors speak to educational reforms and conditions in particular countries, including Italy, Canada, and the United States. For anyone with an interest in formal education or a love of life-long learning, the essays in this book offer fresh ideas for reflection.
Education --- Values --- Philosophy
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Philosophy and Vision argues that clear thinking and imaginative understanding are necessary qualities as we try to deal with the problems that confront us in our daily life. The book discusses history, the environment, religion, personal and corporate morality, freedom, the concept of person, poetry, and post-modernism attempts to show that as a philosophic vision is brought to bear on all of these, we will grasp them more completely and more constructively. The issues which challenge most of us seldom have straightforward answers, but they require some answers, some response other than failing out of our emotions. Attempting to see these philosophically, to adopt a philosophic vision, is no panacea, but it may make the difference between being overwhelmed and being able to cope. The book has a crisp enjoyable style, and while it is a philosophical work it draws upon movies, fiction, poetry, and life's experiences in developing its arguments.
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Social values --- Valeurs sociales --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Social Values --- Congrès
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Social norms --- Values --- Normes sociales --- Valeurs (Philosophie) --- Actiologie --- --Rationalité --- --Sociologie --- --Actiologie --- --Social norms --- --Values --- Social Values --- Social values --- Philosophy --- Congresses --- Rationalism --- Rationalité --- Sociologie
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Brain --- Neuropsychology --- Values --- Congresses --- Congresses --- Congresses
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Fort de l'expérience de toute une vie chargée de responsabilités, René Lenoir s'adresse aux hommes de ce temps souvent privés de repères : "Je ne crois pas possible de penser la cité mondiale du XXIe siècle à partir de considérations économiques. Nous avons tous besoin de nourriture, de vêtements et d'un toit. Nous avons tout autant besoin d'amour et de savoir qui nous sommes. A titre individuel d'abord, comme communauté ensuite. Impossible d'évoquer la cité sans une vision anthropologique : on ne construit pas comme une ruche une société de personnes libres." Evoquant sa connivence avec l'univers et toutes les formes de vie, dialoguant avec les scientifiques et les philosophes de ce siècle, rappelant les valeurs élaborées par l'homme culturel depuis qu'il a émergé de l'homme biologique, l'auteur adresse à ses contemporains un message tonique. Il se demande cependant si nous ne nous sommes pas trompés de progrès. Son analyse critique de l'évolution mondiale s'appuie sur une connaissance des peuples chez qui il a travaillé et des institutions internationales qu'il a fréquentées, ce qui donne à son analyse un caractère concret et vivant. Il rend ainsi son ambition et sa noblesse à une politique visant l'épanouissement de tous les hommes et du tout de l'homme
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