Education in an Age of Nihilism: Education and Moral by Nigel Blake,Paul Smeyers,Richard Smith,Paul Standish

By Nigel Blake,Paul Smeyers,Richard Smith,Paul Standish

This ebook addresses issues approximately academic and ethical criteria in an international more and more characterized via nihilism. at the one hand there's common anxiousness that criteria are falling; at the different, new equipment of responsibility and inspection to teach that they're now not. The authors during this ebook nation that we can't stay away from nihilism if we're easily laissez-faire approximately values, neither do we decrease them to criteria of functionality, nor needs to we go back to standard values. They kingdom that we have to create a brand new set of values in accordance with a serious evaluate of up to date perform within the gentle of a few philosophical texts that tackle the query of nihilism, together with the paintings of Nietzsche.

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