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Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education

Door Martha C. Nussbaum

Categorie	Filosofie
Boeknummer	#356053-ZD14
Titel	Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
Auteur	Nussbaum, Martha C.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1997
ISBN10	067417948X
ISBN13	9780674179486
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original half cloth, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting	How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for the truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender and nation? In this book the author argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such citizens of the world in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. Nussbaum's defence of the new education is rooted in Seneca's ideal of the citizen who scrutinizes tradition critically and who respects the ability to reason wherever it is found, in rich or poor, native or foreigner, female or male. Drawing on Socrates and the Stoics, the author establishes three core values of liberal education: critical self-examination, the ideal of the world citizen and the development of the narrative imagination. Then taking the reader t... (Lees verder)o a variety of classrooms and campuses, Nussbaum aims to show how these values are being embodied in particular courses. She defends such courses as gender, minority and gay studies against charges of moral relativism and low standards, and underscores their dynamic and fundamental contribution to critical reasoning and world citizenship. Nussbaum aims to show that liberal education is alive and well on American campuses and is not only viable and constructive, but essential to a democratic society.
Pagina's	328
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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