What Might Make Life Better?
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What Might Make Life Better?

On Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies

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What Might Make Life Better?

On Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies

About this book

This volume analyzes the powerful normative codes that, for better or worse, shape moral character and ethical education in European countries, in the US, Australia, South Africa, and other late modern liberal societies. Drawing on a major interdisciplinary and international study, this volume analyses the shifting places and roles of these normative codes both in the traditional social spheres of family, religion, law, politics, and markets as well as in the new social spheres of education, academic research, health care, the media, and the military. All of these social systems as well as their complex division of powers, we argue, are essential for building a good life and a good society today, and none should dominate the others. And all of these social systems with their competences must work separately and together to foster justice, freedom, benevolence, and peace at home and abroad.
[Was fördert ein besseres Leben? Charakterentwicklung, ethische Bildung und Wertevermittlung in spÀtmodernen pluralistischen Gesellschaften]
Dieser Band analysiert die mĂ€chtigen normativen Grundlagen, die – im Guten wie im Schlechten - den moralischen Charakter und die ethische Bildung in Europa, Amerika, Australien, SĂŒdafrika und anderen spĂ€tmodernen liberalen Gesellschaften prĂ€gen. Auf der Grundlage einer groß angelegten interdisziplinĂ€ren und internationalen Studie analysiert dieser Band zunĂ€chst die sich wandelnden Orte und Rollen dieser normativen Grundlagen sowohl in den traditionellen sozialen SphĂ€ren von Familie, Religion, Recht, Politik und MĂ€rkten als auch in den neuen sozialen SphĂ€ren von Bildung, akademischer Forschung, Gesundheitsversorgung, Medien und MilitĂ€r. Alle diese sozialen Systeme und ihre komplexe Gewaltenteilung sind fĂŒr den Aufbau eines guten Lebens und einer guten Gesellschaft heute unverzichtbar. Keines dieser sozialen Systeme sollte die anderen dominieren. Mit ihren jeweiligen Kompetenzen mĂŒssen sie zusammenwirken, um das Streben nach Gerechtigkeit, Freiheit, Wahrheit, Menschenfreundlichkeit und Frieden im In- und Ausland zu fördern.

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Table of contents

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  3. Backmatter