Ishtiyaque Haji

Moral Responsibility, Authenticity, and Education

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The primary purpose of this book is to explain the distinction, on the one hand, between indoctrination and education, and, on the other, between responsibility-subverting manipulation and mere causation. Both are elucidated by an appeal to common ground, an account of when our motivations and other springs of action are truly our own or authentic. The book progresses from analyses of the sort of agency that responsibility requires and the authenticity of our motivations, together with a discussion of the relevance of these analyses to manipulation and related problems in the philosophy of education, to a defense of the thesis that responsibi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Cuypers, Stefaan E.

ISBN: 978-1-135-92472-0
EAN: 9781135924720
Produktnummer: 18432996
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 258 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 2'357 KB
Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

Ishtiyaque Haji is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. He is the author of articles in ethical theory, metaphysics, action theory, philosophical psychology, and the philosophy of education, and of the books Moral Appraisability: Puzzles, Proposals, and Perplexities (Oxford UP, 1998) and Deontic Morality and Control (Cambridge UP, 2002).Stefaan E. Cuypers is Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). He is the author of articles in the philosophy of education and the philosophy of mind, and of the book Self-Identity and Personal Autonomy (Ashgate, 2001).