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This book is an original synthesis of four elements: (1) the phenomenology of value, (2) caring, (3) the moral imagination, and (4) Kant's formula of humanity. The striking result is an ethics of caring that develops our shared humanity. The probing analysis and pungent argument are assisted by imaginative forms of dialogue, narration, and parable. This lively contribution to our ethical fulfillment concludes with a case for student-centered education that is democratic, creative and caring.

Architecture --- Aesthetics --- Philosophy

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For far too many people for far too many years, schooling has been a debilitating, demoralizing, and ultimately dehumanizing experience. Make-shift, half-hearted, and watered-down reform measures have proved ineffective. Reform throws out the bath water, but keeps the baby. Radicalism recognizes not a baby but a beast lurks in the bath water and throws both out. This dramatic redefinition of schooling examines four models of dynamism as provided by Nietzsche, Whitehead, Dewey, and Freire. Nietzsche's af-firmation of dynamism is marred by his elitism. Whitehead understands that inert cripple schooling. Without dialogue, ideas remain inert. Dewey misunderstands thinking and does not grasp its inherent double movement: toward order and disorder. Freire's pedagogy is transcended, with emphasis on negotiation between prime values. The final chapter expounds a radical pedagogy of dynamism. Miller argues that teaching and learning are not separate acts, but form a continuum. Within the teaching-learning continuum, all participants are spontaneous and receptive and seek to overcome fear of process, ambiguity, and doubt. The key to radical schooling is a pro-active stance toward creativity that allows for a dynamic integration of difference in dialogue. Negotiating Toward Truth is a call to arms for all educators. The book asks us to look closely what is in the bath water and to have the courage to throw the beast out with the bath water.

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Daisaku Ikeda --- spirituality --- education --- Soka education --- Buddhism --- humanism --- Nichiren Daishonin --- 1253 --- enlightenment --- Tsunesaburo Makiguchi --- Humanist Manifesto I --- Makiguchi's philosophy of education --- the ten states of being --- Bodhisattva --- Buddhahood --- Ichinen Sanzen --- the causality of karma --- Kosen-Rufu --- value creation --- self-mastery --- faith --- the superrational --- Lao Tzu --- Plato --- John Stuart Mill --- Alfred North Whitehead --- John Dewey --- Antonio Gramsci --- Martin Luther King, Jr. --- Paolo Freire --- Howard Gardner --- George David Miller --- reductionism --- nihilism --- apathy --- intolerance --- international education --- school systems