Rethinking the Human Person

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on References and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: The Moral Landscape and Ethical Literacy -- Chapter 1: The Moral Landscape -- Ethical Literacy in a Diverse World -- Deontology, Teleology and Virtue Ethics: Can Moral Principles be Objectively Valid for All? -- Rights and Duties -- The Golden Rule: An Example of a Quintessential Principle -- The Moral Self -- Chapter 2: Ethical Literacy -- The Meaning of Ethical Literacy -- Key Elements of Ethical Literacy -- Ethical Literacy and Education -- Moral Development and Character Education -- Chapter 3: Ethical Literacy and the Education of Emotions -- Ethical Literacy and the Education of Sound Reason -- Ethical Literacy and the Sense of Dignity -- Ethical Literacy and the Concept of the Self -- Part II: Self-paradigms: Descartes, Hume and Freud -- Chapter 4: Descartes -- The Cartesian Self -- Commentary on Descartes' Concept of the Self -- Chapter 5: Hume -- The Humean Self -- Commentary on Hume's Concept of the Self -- Chapter 6: Freud -- The Freudian Self -- Commentary on Freud's Concept of the Self -- Part III: Nur Ali Elahi (Ostad Elahi) -- Chapter 7: The Life and Thought of Nur Ali Elahi (Ostad Elahi) -- A Brief Overview -- System of Thought and Philosophy -- Chapter 8: Ostad Elahi's Bi-dimensional Model of the Self -- The Terrestrial Soul and the Celestial Soul: The Two Opposite Poles of the Self -- Education of Thought: A Process of Assimilation and Growth -- The Process of Spiritual Self-realisation -- Part IV: Conclusion: Ethical Literacy and the Holistic Concept of the Self -- Chapter 9: Ethical Literacy and the Holistic Concept of the Self -- A Brief Reflection on the Self-paradigms: The Self as Revealed in Consciousness