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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
http://www.axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article=1510
Postmodern Sociology & Politics in
University Teacher Training Courses
http://www.axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article=44
http://www.axess.se/magasin/default.aspx?article=1512
http://www.academia.edu/240400/The_meaning_of_social_climate_of_learning_environments_Some_reasons_why_we_do_not_care_enough_about_it
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”?)
??? !
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Science-wars--last-round--7043
Postmodernism’s Critics ? – Many ... outside the Humanities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuKmMyhnG94
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 ...
Evidence of The Enlightenment
(The effects of science and reason)
The Flynn Effect: Rising IQ scores, 1947–2002
Source: Graph from Flynn, 2007, p. 8.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9404856/Is-the-female-of-the-species-really-more-intelligent-than-the-male.html
War & Violence Decreasing 
Caring & Intelligence Increasing 
Human Rights
Woman’s Rights
Minority Rights,
Children’s Rights
Gay Rights
Animal Rights
http://stevenpinker.com/pages/frequently-asked-questions-about-better-angels-our-nature-why-violence-has-declined
New Technology solving Old Philosophical Problems ?
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/wmap_pol.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/04/sam-harris-how-science-ca_n_779020.html
http://www.rps.psu.edu/indepth/brainscans1.html
http://ehl.web.rice.edu/Flammarion%20Link.html
A growing scientific, objective, evidence-based view of Ethics and Morality
http://www.amazon.com/MoralLandscape-Science-DetermineValues/dp/143917122X
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
“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.”
See this video for a broader explanation of a science-based (not postmodernist) ethics 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj9oB4zpHww
http://www.amazon.com/B
raintrust-NeuroscienceTells-aboutMorality/dp/0691156344