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The teaching of ethics and moral values in the schools is an issue that is currently surrounded by public confusion and complaint about the failure of teachers and the teaching system.

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Reviews the history and present practice of community service in the United States. While aware of the strengths of community service programmes to the development of schools and society, the author believes that behind these good intentions, there is a certain ambivalence.

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The current development of biomedical ethics is a source of radical critique not only in the clinic, but also in the classroom. The use of a rich and complex literature drawn from biomedical ethics, pedagogy, and philosophy serves to stimulate the reader to think through the moral complexity and ambivalence of modern experience.

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Beginning with the thesis that Humanism has its roots both in the Enlightenment and in Transcendentalism, this book explores the consequences of taking such a point of view.

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There is currently much confusion about the nature of humanism and a good deal of interest in its point of view. Humanism, Radest maintains, is the true descendant of the age of reason and freedom.

In this unique volume, humanism is viewed as being misunderstood by both traditionalists and the humanists themselves.