Educations and Their Purposes : A Conversation Among Cultures

Chapters included in Part One, "Education, Relationality, and Diversity," examine the growing intellectual awareness of a pervasive interdependence amid diversity in all aspects of the human experience brought on by the unrelenting processes of globalization.

One of the most distinguished voices in the philosophy of emotions offers a sustained reflection in the opening chapter to Part Two, "Educating Emotions: The Phenomenology of Feelings." In Part Three, East Asian traditions of thought that have never committed to the familiar mind-body dualism are appealed to as a resource for rethinking the body in education.

The tension between personal authenticity and indoctrination in the role that education plays in preparing a person for a successful life is the subject of Part Four, "Creativity and Habilitation," followed by chapters on the mutual accommodation of different approaches to education.

The final essays discuss the role of aesthetic sensibilities in moral development with the theme of "education and the aesthetics of moral cultivation."