Ethics used as a ”Battleground” in Swedish Teacher Training Courses
Dec 30, 2015
Ethics used as a ”Battleground” in Swedish Teacher Training Courses
Postmodernism in the Humanities
Postmodernism’s ”broad understanding of society” under attack
http://www.axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article=1510
Axess: Education magazine – Nov 2012
http://www.axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article=44http://www.axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article=1512
Postmodern Sociology & Politics in University Teacher Training Courses
Allodi (2010) strikes a blow for reason and against Post-Modernism in Swedish Education
http://www.academia.edu/240400/The_meaning_of_social_climate_of_learning_environments_Some_reasons_why_we_do_not_care_enough_about_it
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Science-wars--last-round--7043
Is Postmodernism today in touch with the real world? (Have Postmodernists now really stopped saying:
”anything goes”?)
??? !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuKmMyhnG94
Postmodernism’s Critics ? – Many ... outside the Humanities.
Human Flourishing vs Postmodernism Human Well-Being vs Moral Relativism
Common absolute values vs ”No absolute values” For the Enlightenment vs Against the
Enlightenment
OR ...
The Flynn Effect: Rising IQ scores, 1947–2002Source: Graph from Flynn, 2007, p. 8.
Evidence of The Enlightenment (The effects of science and reason)
http://stevenpinker.com/pages/frequently-asked-questions-about-better-angels-our-nature-why-violence-has-declined
War & Violence Decreasing
Caring & Intelligence Increasing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9404856/Is-the-female-of-the-species-really-more-intelligent-than-the-male.html
Human Rights
Woman’s Rights
Minority Rights,
Children’s Rights
Gay Rights
Animal Rights
New Technology solving Old Philosophical Problems ?
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/wmap_pol.html http://ehl.web.rice.edu/Flammarion%20Link.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/04/sam-harris-how-science-ca_n_779020.htmlhttp://www.rps.psu.edu/indepth/brainscans1.html
See this video for a broader explanation of a science-based (not postmodernist) ethics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj9oB4zpHww
A growing scientific, objective, evidence-based view of Ethics and Morality
“Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see that there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.”
“If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.”
http://www.amazon.com/Braintrust-Neuroscience-Tells-about-Morality/dp/0691156344
There are many peaks in the moral landscape, not just one. Morality is here like food. There is no one best food to eat, but there is still an objective difference between poison and tasty, nutritious cuisine. Similarly, there is no one best way to live; but there is an objective, specifiable difference between circumstances, actions and policies
http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Landscape-Science-Determine-Values/dp/143917122X