Summary And Response Of Nussbaum's Educating Citizens
Summary And Response of Nussbaum’s Educating Citizens
Summary
"Educating Citizens" main focus is on the internal dynamics that drive anti-democratic behavior and how Nussbaum tries to find an answer through possible educational cures. Nussbaum asks, if it is possible to consider an approach to education that will lessen human desires to dominate and to marginalize which would instruct everyone to have a heightened sense of compassion as well as a capacity to take responsibility both within and beyond national borders? Her reply to this issue is that, the answer lies within the "psychology of human development" (…) in order to find the childhood roots of antidemocratic behavior, and she traces human beings' tendency to stigmatize others to feelings of disgust and shame (30). Similarly one of the main issues is the sense of helplessness we all experience, it may produce a sense of empathy for others, but, if not controlled, it can lead us to stigmatize others. Nussbaum in this case argues that it is crucial in enabling them to negotiate their feelings of weakness rather than projecting them onto others.
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When she asks readers to consider "the problems we face on the way to making students responsible democratic citizens who might think and choose well about a wide range of issues" (27), she does not even pause to consider that when taking in the idea of "making" democratic citizens the tensions and controversies that would arise from this idea. How should we think about the authority "we" exercise in producing subjects capable of thinking for
Summary
"Educating Citizens" main focus is on the internal dynamics that drive anti-democratic behavior and how Nussbaum tries to find an answer through possible educational cures. Nussbaum asks, if it is possible to consider an approach to education that will lessen human desires to dominate and to marginalize which would instruct everyone to have a heightened sense of compassion as well as a capacity to take responsibility both within and beyond national borders? Her reply to this issue is that, the answer lies within the "psychology of human development" (…) in order to find the childhood roots of antidemocratic behavior, and she traces human beings' tendency to stigmatize others to feelings of disgust and shame (30). Similarly one of the main issues is the sense of helplessness we all experience, it may produce a sense of empathy for others, but, if not controlled, it can lead us to stigmatize others. Nussbaum in this case argues that it is crucial in enabling them to negotiate their feelings of weakness rather than projecting them onto others.
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When she asks readers to consider "the problems we face on the way to making students responsible democratic citizens who might think and choose well about a wide range of issues" (27), she does not even pause to consider that when taking in the idea of "making" democratic citizens the tensions and controversies that would arise from this idea. How should we think about the authority "we" exercise in producing subjects capable of thinking for