Ethics used as a ”Battleground” in Swedish Teacher Training Courses

Postmodernism in the Humanities

Postmodernism’s ”broad understanding of society” under attack Axess: Education magazine – Nov 2012

Postmodern Sociology & Politics in University Teacher Training Courses

Allodi (2010) strikes a blow for reason and against Post-Modernism in Swedish Education

Is Postmodernism today in touch with the real world? (Have Postmodernists now really stopped saying: ”anything goes”?) ??? !

Postmodernism’s Critics ? – Many... outside the Humanities.

Human Flourishing vs Postmodernism Human Well-Being vs Moral Relativism Common absolute values vs ”No absolute values” For the Enlightenment vs Against the Enlightenment OR...

The Flynn Effect: Rising IQ scores, 1947–2002 Source: Graph from Flynn, 2007, p. 8. Evidence of The Enlightenment ( The effects of science and reason) War & Violence Decreasing Caring & Intelligence Increasing Human Rights Woman’s Rights Minority Rights, Children’s Rights Gay Rights Animal Rights

New Technology solving Old Philosophical Problems ?

See this video for a broader explanation of a science-based (not postmodernist) ethics A growing scientific, objective, evidence-based view of Ethics and Morality “Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see that there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.” “If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery.” raintrust-Neuroscience- Tells-about- Morality/dp/ There are many peaks in the moral landscape, not just one. Morality is here like food. There is no one best food to eat, but there is still an objective difference between poison and tasty, nutritious cuisine. Similarly, there is no one best way to live; but there is an objective, specifiable difference between circumstances, actions and policies Landscape-Science-Determine- Values/dp/ X