Rethinking the human person : moral landscape and ethical literacy / Nahal Jafroudi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jafroudi, Nahal, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self (Philosophy).

Ethics.

Physical Description:

x, 382 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Peter Lang, [2016]

Summary:

Recent developments in the natural and social sciences have brought great benefits to humanity, both in terms of our material wellbeing and our intellectual and conceptual capacities. Yet, despite a broad ethical consensus and highly developed innate faculties of reason and conscience, there seems to be a significant discrepancy between how we ought to behave and how we actually behave, leading to a disregard for the dignity of human persons across the globe. This book suggests that the problem arises from various misunderstandings of the nature of the self and that the solution could lie in adopting a holistic concept of the human person within the context of a carefully cultivated ethical literacy. It argues that the ideas of the Iranian philosopher Ostad Elahi (1895-1974) provide a powerful and compelling alternative to the dominant post-Enlightenment understanding of selfhood, education and morality. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Moral Landscape and Ethical Literacy 13

Chapter 1 The Moral Landscape 15

Chapter 2 Ethical Literacy 37

Chapter 3 Ethical Literacy and the Education of Emotions 61

Part II Self-paradigms: Descartes, Hume and Freud 103

Chapter 4 Descartes 105

Chapter 5 Hume 131

Chapter 6 Freud 157

Part III Nur Ali Elahi (Ostad Elahi) 189

Chapter 7 The Life and Thought of Nur Ali Elahi (Ostad Elahi) 191

Chapter 8 Ostad Elahi's Bi-dimensional Model of the Self 213

Part IV Conclusion: Ethical Literacy and the Holistic Concept of the Self 233

Chapter 9 Ethical Literacy and the Holistic Concept of the Self 235.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781906165802

1906165807

OCLC:

964293196

Publisher Number:

99970239467