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“The Principle of Personal Worth (PPW) “ / Presentation / WORKSHOP re Training review / See AAP program
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“The new Teaching for Better Thinking”. / FAPSA outing
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Abstracts
The Principle of Personal Worth and its implications for education.
Name: Professor Laurance J. Splitter
School/Institution: Hong Kong Institute of Education
Email address:
The Principle of Personal Worth (PPW) states that persons, as a conceptual category of being, different from that of human beings, have unique moral value and worth. I argue that the language of morality is “made for” persons (including such concepts as duty which affect our relationships with non persons), thereby giving persons a distinctive moral place in relation to other living beings, on the one hand, and abstractions such as corporations, cultures, and nations, on the other. PPW rejects both Individualism and Collectivism, and has important implications, both for such areas of the curriculum as “citizenship education”, and the goal of transforming classrooms into communities of inquiry.
Further abstracts will be available in due course.