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Ethics used as a Battleground in Swedish
Teacher Training Courses
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Postmodernism in the Humanities
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Postmodernisms broad understanding of society
under attack
Axess Education magazine Nov 2012
http//www.axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article1
510
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Postmodern Sociology Politics in
University Teacher Training Courses
http//www.axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article4
4 http//www.axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article
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http//www.academia.edu/240400/The_meaning_of_soci
al_climate_of_learning_environments_Some_reasons_w
hy_we_do_not_care_enough_about_it
Allodi (2010) strikes a blow for reason and
against Post-Modernism in Swedish Education ?
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Is Postmodernism today in touch with the real
world? (Have Postmodernists now really stopped
saying anything goes?)
??? !
http//www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Science-w
ars--last-round--7043
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Postmodernisms Critics ? Many ... outside the
Humanities.
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vkuKmMyhnG94
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Human Flourishing vs Postmodernism
Human Well-Being vs Moral Relativism
Common absolute values vs No
absolute values For the
Enlightenment vs Against the Enlightenment
OR ...
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Evidence of The Enlightenment (The
effects of science and reason)
The Flynn Effect Rising IQ scores,
19472002 Source Graph from Flynn, 2007, p. 8.
http//www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/94
04856/Is-the-female-of-the-species-really-more-int
elligent-than-the-male.html
War Violence Decreasing ? Caring Intelligence
Increasing ?
Human Rights Womans Rights Minority
Rights, Childrens Rights Gay Rights Animal Rights
http//stevenpinker.com/pages/frequently-asked-que
stions-about-better-angels-our-nature-why-violence
-has-declined
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New Technology solving Old Philosophical Problems
?
http//www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/
wmap_pol.html
http//ehl.web.rice.edu/Flammarion20Link.html
http//www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/04/sam-harri
s-how-science-ca_n_779020.html http//www.rps.psu.
edu/indepth/brainscans1.html
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A growing scientific, objective, evidence-based
view of Ethics and Morality
There are many peaks in the moral landscape, not
just one. Morality is here like food. There is no
one best food to eat, but there is still an
objective difference between poison and tasty,
nutritious cuisine. Similarly, there is no one
best way to live but there is an objective,
specifiable difference between circumstances,
actions and policies
http//www.amazon.com/Braintrust-Neuroscience-Tel
ls-about-Morality/dp/0691156344
http//www.amazon.com/Moral-Landscape-Science-Dete
rmine-Values/dp/143917122X
Just as there is no such thing as Christian
physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see that there
is no such thing as Christian or Muslim
morality. If our well-being depends upon the
interaction between events in our brains and
events in the world, and there are better and
worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will
tend to produce lives that are more worth living
than others some political persuasions will be
more enlightened than others and some world
views will be mistaken in ways that cause
needless human misery.
See this video for a broader explanation of a
science-based (not postmodernist) ethics
? http//www.youtube.com/watch?vHj9oB4zpHww