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The new textbook containing the subject matter for the national exam in philosophy at Dutch VWO schools for the period 2020-2023.
| Author / creator | Curator | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ad Verbrugge, Govert Buijs & Jelle van Baardewijk | Floris Velema | 09/2019 |
This textbook was written by Ad Verbrugge, Govert Buijs & Jelle van Baardewijk, who are all members of Centrum Èthos of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Centrum Èthos is a center for education, research and debate on the topic of societal transformations.
The book was published by Lemniscaat (Rotterdam, 2018) and is connected to the updated curriculum description of philosophy in Dutch VWO schools (see the link below).
Prologue
The question of the good life and the free market
Chapter 1
The free market and the good life in plural: five dimensions
Chapter 2
Plato and Aristotle on the good life: why 'noble action' in ancient Greece did not match with trade
Chapter 3
The good life according to Christianity: towards a better world
Chapter 4
Modernity as a project of liberation (1): the autonomous individual
Chapter 5
Modernity as a project of liberation (2): domination over the world
Chapter 6
Modernity and the free market economy: the good life on a volcanic fault line
Chapter 7
Human in singular, human in plural: relations
Chapter 8
The Janus head of institutions
Chapter 9
The embodied self and the good life
Chapter 10
The fragility and superiority of nature
Chapter 11
The search for a meaningful life
Epilogue
Beyond modernity
Appendix
Source readings from Aristotle, John Locke, Søren Kierkegaard, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Joan Tronto, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Alasdair MacIntyre, Michel Foucault, Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham, Hannah Arendt and Marha Nussbaum.