Ethics used as a ”Battleground” in Swedish Teacher Training Courses

Postmodernism in the Humanities

Postmodernism’s ”broad understanding of society” under attack

http://www.axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article=1510

Axess: Education magazine – Nov 2012

http://www.axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article=44http://www.axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article=1512

Postmodern Sociology & Politics in University Teacher Training Courses

Allodi (2010) strikes a blow for reason and against Post-Modernism in Swedish Education

http://www.academia.edu/240400/The_meaning_of_social_climate_of_learning_environments_Some_reasons_why_we_do_not_care_enough_about_it

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Science-wars--last-round--7043

Is Postmodernism today in touch with the real world? (Have Postmodernists now really stopped saying:

”anything goes”?)

??? !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuKmMyhnG94

Postmodernism’s Critics ? – Many ... outside the Humanities.

Human Flourishing vs Postmodernism Human Well-Being vs Moral Relativism

Common absolute values vs ”No absolute values” For the Enlightenment vs Against the

Enlightenment

OR ...

The Flynn Effect: Rising IQ scores, 1947–2002Source: Graph from Flynn, 2007, p. 8.

Evidence of The Enlightenment (The effects of science and reason)

http://stevenpinker.com/pages/frequently-asked-questions-about-better-angels-our-nature-why-violence-has-declined

War & Violence Decreasing

Caring & Intelligence Increasing

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9404856/Is-the-female-of-the-species-really-more-intelligent-than-the-male.html

Human Rights

Woman’s Rights

Minority Rights,

Children’s Rights

Gay Rights

Animal Rights

New Technology solving Old Philosophical Problems ?

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/wmap_pol.html http://ehl.web.rice.edu/Flammarion%20Link.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/04/sam-harris-how-science-ca_n_779020.htmlhttp://www.rps.psu.edu/indepth/brainscans1.html

See this video for a broader explanation of a science-based (not postmodernist) ethics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj9oB4zpHww

A growing scientific, objective, evidence-based view of Ethics and Morality

“Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see that there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.”

“If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.”

http://www.amazon.com/Braintrust-Neuroscience-Tells-about-Morality/dp/0691156344

There are many peaks in the moral landscape, not just one. Morality is here like food. There is no one best food to eat, but there is still an objective difference between poison and tasty, nutritious cuisine. Similarly, there is no one best way to live; but there is an objective, specifiable difference between circumstances, actions and policies

http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Landscape-Science-Determine-Values/dp/143917122X