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Author:   Magdalena Bosch
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.863kg
ISBN:  

9783030470005

ISBN 10:   3030470008
Pages:   451
Publication Date:   24 July 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

To be what one desires to be. The notion of habit and its educational value.- The Role of Desire in Action.- Education of Desire for Flourishing.- The Joy of Doing Good and Character Education.- Desire and Freedom: Are We Responsible for Our Emotions?.- The ethical value of motivation as an operative desire.- Harmonising reason and emotions: Common paths from Plato to contemporary trends in psychology.- Desire and Beauty.- The Education of Desire: Moderation or Reinforcement?.- Desire and Sensitivity.- Desire and madness: Platonic dialogues on education.- Moral education as education of desire in Plato’s Symposium.- Educating desire in Aristotle.- The right desire?.- The Stoics on the Education of Desire.- The Desire in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa.- The salvation of desire: Saint Augustine’s perspective.- The Education of Desire according to Aquinas.- Attention and Education: Key Ideas from Charles S. Peirce.- Desire in Freud.- Psychological key to educating desire: Healthy Family Lifestyles.- The Education of Desire and the Use of ICT.- Desire and the emotion of shame.- The emotional openness of wonder and admiration to educating our moral desires.- Advertising and desire.- Pedagogical reflection on desire and perspectives for an education of identity.- Contemplation, learning, teaching through love.- A way out of the dialectics of love and desire as the clue to an adequate education of desire.- Rectification of Appetite’ as Education of Desire within ‘Moral’ Virtue.

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Magdalena Bosch is a Titular University Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and holds the position of Agregada in the field of moral thought at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain). She teaches ethics in the humanities and business faculties at her university. She studied philosophy at the University of Barcelona, and holds a PhD in the theory of knowledge and metaphysics from the same university. Throughout her academic career, she has studied aspects of desire from a range of different standpoints: freedom, emotions, aesthetics, Romanticism, motivation, happiness and pro-social attitudes. She has published numerous articles in international journals; several book chapters; and five books.

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