Screen LibraryValues and virtues for a challenging world /
"We live in an increasingly unpredictable physical and social environment. Climate change, viral pandemics, wars, and mass migrations present significant challenges, while new technologies and media are transforming the ways we understand ourselves and think about our political situations. Whic...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement,
92 |
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| Summary: |
"We live in an increasingly unpredictable physical and social environment. Climate change, viral pandemics, wars, and mass migrations present significant challenges, while new technologies and media are transforming the ways we understand ourselves and think about our political situations. Which attitudes, skills, and values should we cultivate to enable us to respond well to the challenges of this changing world? The essays in this volume emphasise the importance of creativity, collaboration, understanding, and wisdom in dealing with one another and thinking about novel and unforeseen difficulties. Through better reasoning, we can reduce the influence of immediate responses and attune our responses to how the world really is and what really matters. The book aims to begin a conversation about how to foster better reasoning about new challenges through our education system, the structures of our organisations, the regulation of social-and- mass media, and the designs of buildings and urban spaces"-- |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 307 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781009345262 1009345265 |
| Index Number: | BJ1451 |
| CLC: | B825 |
| Call Number: | B825/V215 |
| Contents: |
Introduction / Group creativity / Collective responsibility should be treated as a virtue / Reclaiming care and privacy in the age of social media / Deepfakes, intellectual cynics, and the cultivation of digital sensibility / Affective polarisation and emotional distortions on social media / Self-regulation and political confabulation / Cultivating curiosity in the information age / Practical wisdom and the value of cognitive diversity / The need for Phronesis / Integrity as the goal of character education / Empathy and loving attention / On the importance of beauty and taste / Relativism, fallibilism, and the need for interpretive clarity / Uncertainty phobia and epistemic forbearance in a pandemic / |