The Humanities and Moral Education
Publication information:
Hankins J. The Humanities and Moral Education. In: Boi L, Curi U, Maffei L, Miraglia L, editors. In difesa dell’umano. Problemi e prospettive. Luci e ombre della contemporaneità. Osservare, descrivere, immaginare e ripensare il mondo. Vol. One. Frascati, Italy: Academia Vivarium Novum; 2022. pp. 279–292.
Abstract
With this book-manifesto, which contains forty-eight contributions from figures from the international scientific and humanistic world, it was intended to weave praise, even if critical and starting from a plural gaze, of the evolutionary, cognitive and imaginative qualities of man, to raise a voice in defense of the essential and universal prerogatives of the human, showing the deception of today's dogmas and single thought, and at the same time the groundlessness of argumentation and the ideal emptiness of a social model; And we wanted to propose a possible way out, despite the diversity of visions and perspectives, from the current stalemate in which humanity has found itself, trusting primarily in the infinite power of education and in the inexhaustible perfectibility of man.