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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Richard Dagger; Christopher Metress and J. Scott Lee Klappentext This volume reminds readers that dedicated teachers at colleges and universities are passing on the heritage of liberal education as well as constructing its future. All readers will benefit from the insights of this volume the historical, ethical, literary and philosophical perspectives provided by core text liberal arts education. Zusammenfassung This volume reminds readers that dedicated teachers at colleges and universities are passing on the heritage of liberal education as well as constructing its future. All readers will benefit from the insights of this volume the historical! ethical! literary and philosophical perspectives provided by core text liberal arts education. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionRichard Dagger, Christopher Metress, and J. Scott LeePlenary AddressesWhither Philosophy? Richard KamberThe Cunning of Tradition Wilfred M. McClayOf the Wings of Atalanta-Meaning and Dualism in DuBois, Morrison, and Historically Black, Liberal Arts Education Grant D. Venerable Platonic Forms as a Model of Modern Physics: Confessions of an Experimental Physicist Steven TurleyLiberal Education and the Liberal ArtsLiberal Education: Transmitting Knowledge through Texts Molly Brigid FlynnWhy Should Science Majors Waste Their Time on Great Books James J. DonovanMedieval Political Philosophy, Christianity, and the Liberal Arts Benjamin Smith Thinking about Thinking about Justice: The Abolition of Man and Reflections on Education Storm BaileyThe Futility of Escaping the Mind: Invisible Man and a Liberal Education David Dolence An Exemplary Model of Core Text Education: Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions as a Paradigm Provider Bryan Johnson Memory and the Classical HeritageHomer and the Duty of Remembrance Karl Schudt Justius Lipsius and the Re-Invention of Stoicism Andrew Terjesen"Literaturizing" Life: Reading and Misreading Honor in Petronius' Satyricon Michael J. Mordine Hobbes's Thucydides and Homer: Translation as Political Thought Laurie M. Johnson Bagby "But I Did Not Love Only Him": Helping Students Discern Platonic Values in Sense and Sensibility Steven EpleyFreedom and Happiness from the Renaissance to ModernityThe Originality of Pico's Oration Neil G. RobertsonDeath and Core Tradition in a Polish Renaissance Lament James Roney Freedom and Its Limits: Moliere's Don Juan as Free-Thinker Diane Fourny...
