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Mette Hjort – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2025
While concepts of care and caring have a long history, the terms have become especially prominent in recent times. Care and caring, I argue, have emerged as what philosopher Charles Taylor calls 'moral sources,' uber-concepts that allow for moral deliberation, the prioritization of preferences, and our identity formation as persons. Linking the…
Descriptors: Caring, Universities, College Students, Mental Health
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Trent Davis – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2024
This paper opens with a family anecdote in which my future mother in-law, when asked what wise advice she would offer undergraduate university students, replied, "I would tell them it's not going to be okay." Can we learn to keep engaging with the world despite its inevitable disappointments? I propose that Stoic philosophy, by…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Undergraduate Study, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Intelligence