1st Edition

Moral Responsibility, Authenticity, and Education

By Ishtiyaque Haji, Stefaan E. Cuypers Copyright 2008
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Acknowledgements.  1. Introduction: The Metaphysics of Responsibility and Philosophy of Education  2. Moral Responsibility, Authenticity, and the Problem of Manipulation  3. A Novel Perspective on the Problem of Authenticity  4. Forward-Looking Authenticity in the Internalism/Externalism Debate  5. Authentic Education, Indoctrination, and Moral Responsibility  6. Moral Responsibility, Hard Incompatibilism, and Interpersonal Relationships  7. On the Significance of Moral Responsibility and Love  8. Love, Commendability, and Moral Obligation  9. Love, Determinism, and Normative Education.  Appendices.  Notes.  References.  Index.

Biography

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).