Educating For Democracy

Preface

Foreword
Alexander Chumakov
Paideia In Philosophy And Religion

Introduction: Paideia, Philosophy, And Religion
Alan Olson
Paideia: Anachronism Or Necessity?
William Desmond
Paideia As The Unity Of Knowledge And Enlightenment
Mourad Wahba
Science, Education, And The Transformation Of Civilization In The Twenty-First Century
Viachaslav Stepin
The Noospheric Imperative For Paideia In The Twenty-First Century
Eduard Girusov
Paideia And Critical Thinking
Vladislav Lektorsky
Inter-Religious Dialogues During The Middle Ages And Early Modernity
Vittorio Hosle
The Impact Of Modernity On Jewish Life
Steven Katz
Paideia And Adab In Islam
Nur Kirabiev
The Changing Face Of Islamic Radicalism
Alexei Malashenko
Christian-Islamic Dialogue In The Twenty-First Century
Sidney Griffith
Paideia And Education

Introduction: Paideia And Education
David Steiner
Paideia: Anachronism Or Necessity?
John Silber
Paideia In And Age Of Uncertainty
Elmer Hankiss
After NATO, Paideia?
Igor Lukes
Liberal Education In The Fear Of Anti-Democracy
Kurt Salamun
Prescribing Orthodoxy
Charles Glenn
De-Dogmatizing Reason
Mona Abousenna
Education And Democratization In An Age Of Islamism
Bassam Tibi
Education To Conscience And Political Disobedience: The Role Of The Role Model
Ovadia Ezra
Face To Face With Eudaimonia: The Post-Soviet Teacher’s Identity
Elena Trubina
Reformatting The Idea Of A University
Gregory Walters
Paideia And Economics

The Ethics Of Political Economy: A Roundtable
Alexander Ageev, Bradley Googins, Katherine Marshall, James Post, Sheila Puffer,

(cont. From Above), And Irina Tuuli
About The Contributors

Additional Info
The central conflicts of the world today are closely related to cultural, traditional, and religious differences between nations. As we move to a globalized world, these differences often become magnified, entrenched, and the cause of bloody conflict.

Growing out of a conference of distinguished scholars from the MiddleEast, Europe, and the United States, this volume is a singular contribution to mutual understanding and cooperative efforts on behalf of peace. The term paideia, drawn from Greek philosophy, has to do with responsible education for citizenship as a necessary precondition for effective democracy.

The problems discussed here are crucial, but not simple. How can we find shared ethical principles on which to build international consensus? How can religious tolerance make inroads in societies accustomed to restrictive fundamentalism? What might bring about de-dogmatization of education in the Middle East as a necessary condition for free and rational inquiry and the broader vistas required by democracy? All of these issues highlight the underlying question, “What is education really for?” Finally, the volume confronts the promises and perils of economic globalization. Noting that one third of the world’s population lives in abject poverty, business has become a battlefield where ethics and trust are clearly at stake.