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In Search of Human Dignity - Essays in Theology, Ethics and Education
von: Karin Sporre
Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2015
ISBN: 9783830982418 , 267 Seiten
Format: PDF, OL
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Preis: 29,99 EUR
Book Cover
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Contents
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Introduction
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I. In search of human dignity: Essays in theology
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II. In search of human dignity: Essays in ethics
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III. In search of human dignity: Essays in education
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Acknowledgements
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Essays in theology
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1. “i found god in myself & i loved her, i loved her fiercely”
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The quote
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Mary Grey
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Michelle Cliff
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Most surprising: demarcation, her and fiercely
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Alice Walker: The Color Purple
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Katie Cannon – and “the color purple”
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A few reflections
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Until last week
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Bibliography
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2. “Do not love anybody more than you love yourself.” On ethics, oppression, and resistance
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“Only when we have faces”
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Under oppression
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To embrace one’s own value – and that of others
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Finally
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Bibliography
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3. Women, agency and motherhood
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Mary of the Magnificat – a Sri Lankan perspective
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Faith from within life itself – A South African perspective
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Giving meaning to birthing and motherhood – a Swedish perspective
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Concluding discussion
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Bibliography
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4. Integrity and justice at stake
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Confessing and embodying unity – A feminist theological perspective
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At risk: The integrity of the Christian faith
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A question
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Situations of women worldwide
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Women and the Church
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The Belhar confession and the challenge today – to confess and embody unity
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The comment and a response
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To change
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Whose integrity at stake?
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5. When will white, European men stop being normal?
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On feminism and theology, via oppression and experience, to situated knowledges and a discussion on who is a subject
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Introduction
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On oppression
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On experience
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On the human being
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From patriarchy to justice in spite of differences?
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Theories of patriarchy
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Young’s five faces of oppression
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Situated knowledges and the strategy of the impossible conversation
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Who can be “empirical referents” for knowledge?
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“Situated knowledges”
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Epistemological privilege?
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Is responsible knowing possible?
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New subjects – new human beings?
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Bodily integrity and moral self-confidence
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Critique of Descartes – and a relational self
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Theological relevance
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Women – theological subjects
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White European men – different in their own eyes?
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Is feminist theology partial?
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Knowledge and differences, group egoism, and the impossible conversation
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At last
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Essays in ethics
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6. “Only when we have faces” – ethics in a post-colonial epoch
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Three cultural contexts – and a conversation on four concepts
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Methodological concerns
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Paradigm conflicts and “rhetorical space”
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Situated knowledges
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Communicative ethics
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Feminist ethics
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Theological ethics/Ethics
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Results
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In a proper sense…
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…and in this article…
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Mary C. Grey – relationships as the locus of ethics
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Chung Hyun Kyung – epistemology from a broken body
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Katie G. Cannon an African-American theologian
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Concluding reflections
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Oppression – differences and similarities
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Values: context and universality
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Different presuppositions and equal rights – justice
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Finally
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Bibliography
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7. Women’s human rights in Sweden – a feminist ethical perspective
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One question – and another
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I. Two stories from literature
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Mother Augusta and her relatives
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Catrine – a young Swedish woman
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Women and men in Sweden – facts and figures
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II. Harald Ofstad – a moral philosopher
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Why Ofstad?
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Contempt for Weakness
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“We and the others”
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Humanity and solidarity between human beings
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Reflections on Ofstad’s argument and observations
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Us and them
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Strength and weakness
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Violence
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Admiration of power – and neglect of humanity
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Men and women
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III. How to build a human rights culture?
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One humanity – no conceptual cleavage
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Self-actualisation and self-determination
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Women – as a political collective
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Violence against women
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Critical studies
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Directions for a thorough human rights culture
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Bibliography
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8. Knowledge, empathy and responsible encounters
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A conflict, epistemology and empathy
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Carol Gilligan and Lawrence Kohlberg
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Gilligan’s criticism of Kohlberg’s theory
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After Gilligan
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Theory about knowledge
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“Responsible knowing”
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Care
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Empathy
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Empathy in danger
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Interpretive, ambiguous empathy
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Epilogue: entering into dialogue
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Bibliography
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9. Sweden – a rainbow nation? Human dignity, differences and rights
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Human dignity and oppression
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Equality – differences and history
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Intersectionality in practice
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On dignity – at last
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Bibliography
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10. Human dignity and human rights. A gender and Swedish perspective
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Introduction
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An outline
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Human rights and human dignity
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Human rights
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Human dignity
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Human dignity – in a plurality of languages
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Human dignity – a Swedish/Norwegian contribution I: Harald Ofstad
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Human dignity – a Swedish contribution II: discoveries of three women theologians
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Concluding discussion
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Bibliography
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Essays in education
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11. Epistemology from a broken body. Vulnerability, sexuality and education
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The background
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“Epistemology from a broken body”
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Suffering
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Epistemology and feminist theory
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Women’s ways of knowing
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A phenomenology of rape?
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Curricula and teaching materials – preliminary findings
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Responsible knowing and vulnerability
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Questions for further study
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Bibliography
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12. Human dignity and gender equality: Reflections on concepts and ideals of human rights and democracy in Sweden and South Africa
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Introduction
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A few methodological concerns
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The academic exchange programme
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The academic context
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Ethics – a discipline with clashing paradigms
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A democratic feminism
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Interdisciplinary approach and global situatedness
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Human rights and democracy in a Swedish context
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Human rights and democracy in general
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A symposium in 2002
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Other arenas – Sweden
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Human rights and democracy in a South African context
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Human rights and democracy in general
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The symposium in 2002 – South African voices
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Other arenas – South Africa
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Human rights and democracy – concepts and ideals
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Human rights
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Democracy
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Moral formation and ethical theory
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Gender justice and human dignity
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Concepts and ideals
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Bibliography
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13. Values in Swedish education – struggles and tensions in directions around democracy, gender and diversity
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Introduction
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A value foundation
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The value foundation in the curricula
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Democracy
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Schools – supposed providers of societal values
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Five values and their background
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Ethnocentrism?
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“Women and men” vs. “gender”
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A methodological interlude
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Interpretations of the value foundation in Swedish curricula
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Tomas Englund – democracy as deliberative conversations
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Elisabeth Gerle – diversity and gender
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Christer Hedin and Pirjo Lahdenperä – value foundations and societies
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Zackari and Modigh – a social and humanitarian democracy
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Discussion
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Democracy, gender and diversity
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Critical voices in 2006
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Values and rights – the good life and justice
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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14. The universal and the particular in the work of Seyla Benhabib – and education in a globalised world
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Ethics – a presupposition and a challenge
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Two questions and the purpose
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A. The particular, the universal, interactive universalism and enlarged thinking
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Interactive universalism
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Enlarged thinking
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The particular and the universal
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B. Cosmopolitanism in the moral philosophy of Benhabib
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Cosmopolitanism – a background
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Cosmopolitanism – towards a 21st century version
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The interactive universalism, cosmopolitanism and the others
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The German case
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The young French women
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Grounding of norms in a post-metaphysical era
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Conclusion – the particular and the universal in Benhabib’s discourse ethics
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C. Implications for the development of global perspectives in education
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Educational systems and an interactive universalism
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Democratic iterations
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Sustainable future
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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15. Human dignity and education – concluding discussion
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A search for human dignity
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Essays in theology
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Essays in ethics
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Essays in education
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a) Contemporary religious education (RE)
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b) Sexuality and values education
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c) Global citizens – dignity and rights
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d) A sustainable future and education
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e) From values to virtues in education
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f) Human dignity today
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What is in our hands
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Bibliography
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Appendix 1. English summary of Karin Sporre: Först när vi får ansikten. Ett flerkulturellt samtal omfeminism, etik och teologi. Atlas Akademi, 1999
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Task
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Main questions:
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Research in the field and method
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Feminism, feminist theory and differences
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Concepts and ethical theoretic framework
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Surviving the blight – a womanist ethics
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Knowledge from a broken body – Asian perspectives
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Relationships as the site for ethics – A European voice
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A conversation that continues
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Postscript
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