What goal is not realistic for the Educator? Can he or she hope to pass on all he or she has learned concerning a certain skill or outlook on life? Perhaps. We have plenty of movies that enforce this impression. Caputo mentions the Star Wars … Read More →
Category Archives: Course Work
The Teacher’s Moral and Spiritual Responsibility
How can the educator act responsibly toward the student? How can the Teacher and the Student both be true moral agents? It has been my experience that each and every person has a particular viewpoint that he or she thinks is best. Educators do have … Read More →
Love is Recognizing Otherness
The Four authors encountered in class, Capoto, Vollman, Bauman and Appiah, all demonstrated an awareness that one has responsibility for the Other, and that this responsibility can be understood morally and spiritually. I read Caputo as advocating that religion, the spiritual dimension, is the realm … Read More →
Cosmopolitanism’s Affirmation of Diversity
My Spring 2009 Moral and Spiritual Dimensions of Education course Final paper submission (limited to 10 pages). I attempt to synthesis Appiah with Caputo, Vollman and Bauman. I’m thinking about cleaning this up, relating it the implications of the non-reductionist philosophy of Dooyeweerd derived from … Read More →
The Postmodern Switch
The radical Reductionist attempts of the Enlightenment, however, did have a positive affect. It encouraged a larger cultural switch in allegiance. In light of the horrors of Modernity, we began to re-evaluate Knowledge. The Postmodern era may mark a change in Worldview. We are not … Read More →
Reductionism in Epistemology
What makes Dooyeweerd’s theory of Worldview additionally attractive is that it offers an explanation as to the Rationalism of Modernity. When the commitment is left unchecked, it threatens to become fanatical. And when it does it works to completely undermine and discount everything but what … Read More →
Worldview: Acknowledging Faith’s Role in Knowledge
I have contrasted the Enlightenment and Postmodern Epistemologies, while at the same time developing the story of the concept of Worldview. I now want to advance a different conceptualization of Worldview, one that I think does a better job justly recognizing the contributions of Reason, … Read More →
Worldview: A Brief History
Weltanschuung The word Worldview is what is known as a loanword. It is an English version of a German word Weltanschuung. It literally means “World” and “Perception.” (Naugle, 64). In 1790 Immanuel Kant coined the word to describe our perception of the world that we … Read More →
The Modern Epistemic Debate
Philosophy seeks to grasp, to make sense of, the reality we all experience. We recognize that there is great unity in reality but that there is all great diversity. How is it that unity and diversity coexist? To try to answer these questions, Philosophers develop … Read More →
“The Good” in Neo-Pragmatist Thought: Freedom as a Moral Imperative
What does it mean to live “the good life”? This is the quintessential philosophic question. Pragmatism, as a distinctly American philosophy, seeks to provide a distinctly American answer. The late Richard Rorty played a major role in revitalized Pragmatism following the ‘linguistic turn’, becoming perhaps … Read More →