Essays on Religion and Education

by Hare, R. M.

• ISBN13: 9780198249979
• ISBN10: 0198249977
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-11-12
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

R. M. Hare is one of the most widely discussed of today's moral philosophers. In this volume he has collected his most important essays in the related fields of religion and education, some newly published and others now inaccessible. The book starts with an exposition of his ideas on themeaning of religious language. There follow several essays, theoretical and practical, on the relations between religion and morality, which have deep implications for moral education. The central question addressed in the rest of the volume is how children can be educated to think forthemselves, freely but rationally, about moral questions, and the effects on society of failure to achieve this. Professor Hare argues that those who want to dispense with morality are in effect resigning from a vital educational task. Attitudes to euthanasia and to equality of educationalopportunity are taken as examples of how our thinking can go wrong.

Author Biography

R. M. Hare, FBA, was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 to 1983, and Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida, Gainesville, thereafter.

Table of Contents

The Simple Believer	p. 1
Theology and Falsification	p. 37
Religion and Morals	p. 40
Are there Moral Authorities?	p. 56
Euthanasia: A Christian View	p. 72
How did Morality Get a Bad Name?	p. 86
Satanism and Nihilism	p. 98
Adolescents into Adults	p. 113
Autonomy as an Educational Ideal	p. 131
Value Education in a Pluralist Society: A Philosophical Glance at the Humanities Curriculum Project	p. 137
Language and Moral Education	p. 154
Rejoinder to G. J. Warnock	p. 173
Platonism in Moral Education: Two Varieties	p. 178
Why Moral Language?	p. 191
Opportunity for What? Some Remarks on Current Disputes about Equality in Education	p. 212
References and Bibliography	p. 229
Index	p. 235
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