Rethinking the Human Person: Moral Landscape and Ethical Literacy

Rethinking the Human Person Moral Landscape and Ethical Literacy Recent developments in the natural and social sciences have brought great benefits to humanity, both in terms of our material wellbeing and our intellectual and conceptual capacities.Yet, despite a broad ethical consensus and highly developed innate faculties of reason and conscience, there seems to be a significant discrepancy between how we ought to behave and how we actually behave, leading to a disregard for the dignity of human persons across the globe. This book suggests that the problem arises from various misunderstandings of the nature of the self and that the solution could lie in adopting a holistic concept of the human person within the context of a carefully cultivated ethical literacy. It argues that the ideas of the Iranian philosopher Ostad Elahi (1895?1974) provide a powerful and compelling alternative to the dominant post-Enlightenment understanding of selfhood, education and morality. Additional ISBNs 9781787071759, 9781787071773Rethinking the Human Person: Moral Landscape and Ethical Literacy 1st Edition is written by Nahal Jafroudi and published by Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers. ISBNs for Rethinking the Human Person are 9781787071766, 1787071766 and the print ISBNs are 9781906165802, 1906165807. Additional ISBNs include 9781787071759, 9781787071773.