1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910689672903321

Titolo

Internet education : exploring the benefits and challenges of web-based education : hearing before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session on examining the benefits and challenges of web-based education, September 26, 2002

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 54 p.) : ill

Soggetti

Distance education - Technological innovations - United States

Education, Higher - Effect of technological innovations on - United States

Internet in education - United States

Web-based instruction - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164050503321

Autore

Midgley Mary <1919->

Titolo

Can't we make moral judgements? / / Mary Midgley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017

ISBN

1-4742-9801-X

1-4742-9799-4

Edizione

[[Bloomsbury revelations edition.].]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 pages)

Collana

Bloomsbury revelations

Disciplina

170

302.13

Soggetti

Judgment (Ethics)

Moral conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface to the Bloomsbury Revelations edition -- Introduction to the first edition -- 1 Can we base freedom on ignorance? -- 2 Starting from where we are -- 3 Why there is trouble over knowledge -- 4 Scepticisim and liberty -- 5 Why must we not interfere? -- 6 The fear of society -- 7 The public side of morality -- 8 Individuals in the modern melting-pot -- 9   Individualism, solitude and privacy -- 10 Morality and harm -- 11 Rethinking relativism -- 12 How large is a culture -- 13 Varieties of subjectivism -- 14 The problem of private validity -- 15 Social darwinist egoism -- 16 Moving forward through the modern world -- 17 Doubts, reasonable and otherwise -- 18 What about values -- 19 Back to the main question -- 20 How much have things changed -- Envoi -- Index of proper names.

Sommario/riassunto

"How many times do we hear the statement 'It's not for me to judge'? It conveys one of the most popular ideas of our time: that to make judgements of others is essentially wrong. In this classic text, the renowned moral philosopher Mary Midgley turns a spotlight on the ever popular stance in society that we should not make moral judgements on others. Guiding the reader through the diverse approaches to this complex subject, she interrogates our strong beliefs about such things as the value of freedom that underlie our scepticism about making moral judgements. She shows how the question of whether or not we



can make these judgements must inevitably affect our attitudes not only to the law and its institutions but also to events that occur in our daily lives, and suggests that mistrust of moral judgements may be making life even harder for us than it would be otherwise. The texts and philosophers discussed range from Nietzsche and Sartre to P.D. James and the Bhagavad Gita. The Bloomsbury Revelations edition includes a new preface from the author."--Bloomsbury Publishing.