Essays on Religion and Education (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198249962)

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 the meaning of religious language. There follow several essays 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 for themselves, 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 toward euthanasia and equality of educational opportunity are taken as examples of how our thinking can go wrong.

Author: R. M. Hare
ISBN-10: 0198249969
ISBN-13: 9780198249962
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 12/31/1998
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.45w x 0.50d