Reviews for Education and ethics

The average rating for Education and ethics based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-03-10 00:00:00 Cody Pata La phrase est claire [à propos d'une citation d'Aristote], sans appel: enseigner que la liberté implique le respect des lois est le seul moyen de faire durer cette liberté. De toute les réflexions que nous a livrées la Grèce ancienne sur les problèmes de la démocratie, celle-ci est peut-être la plus actuelle et la plus riche de sens. [...] La leçon finale de l'expérience grecque est en effet précise. Une démocratie qui laisse l'enseignement tomber aux mains des ennemis du régime, une démocratie qui n'essaie même pas de conserver à l'éducation sa qualité de formation, non pas politique, mais civique, une telle démocratie est perdue. Aristote l'a annoncé. Peut-être, en se hâtant, serait-il encore temps de tenir compte de ses avis, auxquels une expérience, mûrie à Athènes au cours de deux siècles [...], donne un relief d'autant plus grand.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-03-16 00:00:00 Charles Earwood A pretty interesting book, though it is dated with a 1997 copyright. The disagreement that I would have with the author is related to the Muslim world, particularly the Arab Middle East and North Africa where the Arab Spring advanced by President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to overthrow dictators such as Mubarak in Egypt and Qadafi in Libya in favor of democracies, and the current state of war in Syria after an abortive attempt to unseat the Assad regime had the opposite effect than is advanced by Rummel's book. Democracy in those nations fostered great bloodshed, for the following reasons. Mubarak, Qadafi, and the Assad regime demanded a monopoly of force in their nations, which consisted of various Muslim sects and ethnicities and a minority Christian population. Once democracies were in place the majority Muslim population then began a program of eliminating Muslim minority sects and Christians. Thus, Rummel's view of democracy as a method of nonviolence seems to work well in the West and in those parts of the far East influenced by the West, such as Japan, Korea, and the Philippines, he needs to take a close look at the Middle East and the influence of Islam, in my opinion.