Charity No
313712
Ethics
and Socratic Dialogue in Civil Society
Edited by Patricia Shipley and Heidi Mason
Published by LIT Verlag (Munster)- Summer 2004
What
is the role of civil society in a modern democracy? How can we build a common
identity in today’s fragmented societies? What can be done to counteract the
growing disillusionment with representative forms of government and diminishing
participation in formal political systems? How might dialogue be used as a tool
to foster understanding both within and between nations and cultures?
This
new volume represents a concerted attempt to think through the difficult and
urgent issues facing civil society today. It considers the potential role of
dialogue, especially modern Socratic Dialogue, to help to answer some of the
ethical questions and issues arising in civil society. In this, it aims to
contribute to the debate about the role of dialogue in promoting the ethical
effectiveness of society.
The
volume originated in an international conference, held at Newman College,
Birmingham (UK), in the summer of 2002, so is itself the product of an
international dialogue. There are at least 13 countries represented among our
authors, and four papers have joint authors each based in different countries.
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This book will be
appearing as a special volume within the Philosophical-Political Academy’s
Schriftenreihe series.
The
editors
Patricia
Shipley
trained as a
psychologist after graduating in philosophy and theology. She is an Honorary
Fellow of the Society for the Furtherance of the Critical Philosophy and
Emeritus Reader in Occupational Psychology at the University of London.
Heidi
Mason studied philosophy at the University of Essex, UK. She is a
freelance writer and editor, working in philosophy, the social sciences, and
international development.
Contents
In
Part One there are four lead papers, by authors from Germany, the UK, Bosnia,
and Mexico, who were invited to offer a more general and theoretical slant to
our topic. These set the scene for the 13 papers that follow in Part Two, which
are more specific and, in some cases, more practice-oriented.
Part
One: Reflections on Civil Society
| Thomas Meyer | Renewing Democracy in an Era of Globalization: The Role of Civil Society, Ethics and Citizens’ Dialogue |
|
Hugh Busher |
Reply to Thomas Meyer
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| Peter Rickman | Civil Society and Freedom:
Problems of Autonomy and Control in a Free Society |
| Ugo Vlaisavljevic | The End of Scientific
Ideologies and the Resocialization of Universities |
| Beate Littig | Reply to Peter Rickman and Ugo Vlaisavljevic |
| Fernando Leal | Ethics, Economics and the Third
Sector |
| Patricia Shipley | Reply to Fernando Leal |
Part
Two: Dialogue in Practice
| Grazina Miniotaite | The Integration of Europe and
the Dialogue of Values: The International Socialization of Lithuania |
|
Dimitri Kletschko and Ute Siebert |
Socratic
Dialogue and Democr |
| Aneta Karageorgieva | Environmental Ethics and
Dialogue with Children in Bulgaria |
|
Karin Murris |
Socratic Dialogue in Mainstream Education for Citizenship in British
Schools |
| Toshiro Terada | How can Socratic Dialogue Work in
Japanese Civil Society? |
| Kopfwerk Berlin | The Methodology of Socratic
Dialogue |
| Horst Gronke and Lily Sparnaay | Feelings in a
Socratic Dialogue on Feelings |
| Robert Hamilton and Keith Hammond | Civic Adult
Education and the University |
| Dorothy Moir | Third Sector Organizations in a Changing UK Environment |
| Gisela Raupach-Strey | The Contribution of Socratic
Dialogue to Democratic Aims in Civil Society |
| Paolo Dordoni and Stan van Hooft | Socratic
Dialogue and Medical Ethics |
| Beate Littig | Socratic Dialogue as a New Means of Participatory Technology Assessment? The Case of Xenotransplantation |
| Gale Prawda and Peter Rickman | Philosophy for the Public: Dialogue and the Café Philo |