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This book explores the interrelation of human dignity, education, and political society, and discusses why liberal education is best suited to dignified personal and political life. It sets out what is perennially important about such an education, tracks its development historically, and presents relevant contemporary issues.
List of contents
Introduction: Liberal Education as Invitation, James Greenaway
Part I: Liberal Education and a Life Well Lived
Chapter One: Dignity, Equality, and Liberal Arts Education, Glenn Hughes
Chapter Two: Liberal Education and the Recovery of Personal and Political Existence, James Greenaway
Chapter Three: Liberal Education, Friendship, and the "Political Art in the True Sense", John von Heyking
Part II: Thinkers on Dignity and Education in History
Chapter Four: Leisure and Human Dignity in Ancient Greek Political Thought, Rebecca LeMoine
Chapter Five: Medieval Dignity, Modern Education, Lee Trepanier
Chapter Six: Kant, Dignity, and Liberal Education in a Technological Age, S. F. McGuire
Part III: Contemporary Topics in Dignity and Education
Chapter Seven: Human Dignity, Sexual Equality and the Education of the Soul in Plato's Republic, Ann Ward
Chapter Eight: Childhood as the Paradigm for Political Education, Carol Browning Cooper
Chapter Nine: Reconciled to the World: Campus Ministry Publishing in an Age of Identity Politics, Alex Ambrose
About the author
Edited by James Greenaway - Contributions by Glenn Hughes; John von Heyking; Rebecca LeMoine; Lee Trepanier; S. F. McGuire; Ann Ward; Carol Browning Cooper and Alex Ambrose
Summary
This book explores the interrelation of human dignity, education, and political society, and discusses why liberal education is best suited to dignified personal and political life. It sets out what is perennially important about such an education, tracks its development historically, and presents relevant contemporary issues.
