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1 online resource |
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Routledge international studies in the philosophy of education |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Education, freedom of will and the problem of charitability; Why Spinoza, why now?; Chapter summaries; 1 Outlining the free will problem: determinism vs indeterminism and beyond; Am I an unmoved mover?; Introducing the free will problem; The standard positions: a brief summary; The problem with standard positions; Beyond the standard positions: Spinoza's counterintuitive conception of necessitated freedom; 2 Education and autonomy; Freedom and education; Freedom and autonomy: am I the author of my actions? |
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Autonomy through educationAutonomy, manipulation and critical thinking; Autonomy, decision-making and moral responsibility; Autonomy, self-determination and self-understanding; Departing from the ordinary conception of autonomy; 3 Spinoza on self-determination and the improvement of the understanding; Spinoza's causal determinism; Spinoza on the ethical striving for knowledge; Causal determinism and the false belief in freedom of the will; Spinoza on praise and blame; Gradual freedom from external causes: an educational ideal; 4 Moral education and moral responsibility |
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Education and moral formationAims of character education: the cultivation of virtue; Challenges of contemporary character education: the free will problem and the question of moral responsibility; A Spinozistic approach to character education and virtues: understanding and accepting natural causation; Spinoza on the status of moral knowledge; On self-preservation beyond mere survival and the relative complexity of bodies; A model of moral education or a moral model of education?; 5 Can causal determinism and autonomy coexist?; Causal determinism and moral responsibility |
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Autonomy without free willFree will as a valuable fiction; Valuable fictions and autonomy; Education and the use of valuable fictions; 6 Free will as a valuable fiction in education; From false belief to valuable fiction; Fictions and illusions; Reason and the emotions; Two illustrative examples; The complexity of natural causation and the educational dream of unpredictability; 7 Education for autonomy without free will; Summing up the main arguments of the book; Understanding natural causation: an educational path to autonomy without free will |
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Between facts and fictions: the dual purpose of educationTwo parallel notions of education; Bibliography; Index |
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Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.
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Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677. fast (OCoLC)fst00031382 |
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Moral education -- Philosophy
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Free will and determinism.
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Free will and determinism.
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Moral education -- Philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429942327 |
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042994232X |
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9780429942334 |
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0429942338 |
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9780429942310 |
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0429942311 |
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9780429486227 |
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0429486227 |
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