Satan as Teacher: The View from Nowhere vs. the Moral Sense

Autor/in	Dahlbeck, Johan
Titel	Satan as Teacher: The View from Nowhere vs. the Moral Sense
Quelle	In: Ethics and Education, 17 (2022) 1, S.14-29 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Dahlbeck, Johan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1744-9642
DOI	10.1080/17449642.2021.2013635
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Moral Values; Literature; Educational Philosophy; Ethics; Teaching Methods; Religious Factors + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Literatur; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Ethik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	To what extent should teachers promote the view from nowhere as an ideal to strive for in education? To address this question, I will use Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger as an example, illustrating the stakes involved when the view from nowhere is taken to be an attainable educational ideal. I will begin this essay by offering a description of Thomas Nagel's view from nowhere. Having done this, I will return to Twain's story, providing some further examples of how access to the view from nowhere comes to influence the educational process in different ways. I will then connect the educational question raised by Twain's story to two radically different versions of the exemplar found in the works of Benedict de Spinoza: the philosopher and the prophet. These figures will help illustrate how the striving for philosophical truth can sometimes be educationally inapt, as education always needs to account for humans being human, all too human. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01