TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kitcher,Philip
TI  - The main enterprise of the world: rethinking education
T2  - Walter A. Strauss Lectures in the Humanities
SN  - 9780190928971
AV  - LB14.7 
U1  - 370.1 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Education
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Class of Fall 2015
KW  - Daimler Fellow
KW  - Fellow
N1  - Literaturverzeichnis Seite [397] - 406
N2  - Introduction -- Part 1. Overload -- Individuality -- Fulfillment -- Citizens -- Moral Development -- A Role for Religion? -- Part 2. The Natural Sciences -- The Arts -- Understanding Ourselves -- Part 3. Social Change -- Utopia?; "Education ought to be central to our lives - it should be, in Ralph Waldo Emerson's phrase, "the main enterprise of the world." In its broadest sense, education aims at three goals: to enable people to support themselves, to enable them to function as citizens, and to find fulfilment. In our times, changing features of the workplace environment provide opportunities to focus on the latter two goals, and to liberate education from supposed economic constraints. By doing so, we can improve the lives of individuals, and build more solid foundations for democracy. Philip Kitcher's humanistic vision of educational reform is not, however, divorced from the realities of contemporary life nor doomed by any conflict with sound economics. After an accessible discussion of central philosophical questions, he examines the content of the curriculum, the social changes required if a fully adequate education is to be provided to all, and considers how the proposals can be reconciled with financial stability. The Main Enterprise of the World renews classical Pragmatism: with one eye on the ideal, and the other on the world, it presents a picture of education appropriate for our century"--
UR  - https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780190928971.pdf
ER  -