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Zusatztext The arguments are admirably clear and straightforward. Informationen zum Autor R. M. Hare, FBA, was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 to 1983, and Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida, Gainesville, thereafter. Klappentext R.M. Hare is one of the most widely discussed of today's moral philosophers. In this volume he has collected his most important essays in the related fields of religion and education! some newly published and others now inaccessible. The book starts with an exposition of his ideas on the meaning of religious language. There follow several essays on the relations between religion and morality! which have deep implications for moral education. The central question addressed in the rest of the volume is how children can be educated to think for themselves! freely but rationally! about moral questions! and the effects on society of failure to achieve this. Professor Hare argues that those who want to dispense with morality are in effect resigning from a vital educational task. Attitudes toward euthanasia and equality of educational opportunity are taken as examples of how our thinking can go wrong. Zusammenfassung R. M. Hare, one of the most widely discussed of today's moral philosophers, here presents his most important essays on religion and education, in which he brings together the theoretical and the practical. The main themes of the book are the relations between religion and morality and the question how children can be educated to think for themselves, freely but rationally, about moral questions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The Simple Believer Appendix: Theology and Falsification 2: Religion and Morals 3: Are there Moral Authorities? 4: Euthanasia: A Christian View 5: How did Morality Get a Bad Name? 6: Satanism and Nihilism 7: Adolescents into Adults 8: Autonomy as an Educational Ideal 9: Value Education in a Pluralist Society 10: Language and Moral Education Appendix: Rejoinder to G. J. Warnock 11: Platonism in Moral Education: Two Varieties 12: Why Moral Language? 13: Opportunity for What? Some Remarks on Current Disputes about Equality in Education References and Bibliography Index ...
