Liberal education aspires to excellence through the cultivation of
free human beings who excel in thought, word, and deed. But what
exactly is excellence, and why do we admire it? How do we conceive
of what is excellent? What constitutes excellence-either for human
beings, or in the realms of philosophy, literature, science, and
politics? Why is excellence an aim of liberal education? What kinds
of texts, courses, and inquiries contribute to achieving this end?
Such questions animate the studies herein. The essays in this
volume reflect on the idea of excellence embedded within core
texts, as well as how such texts influence and ennoble higher
education. In its chapters, we consider rival forms of excellence
from ancient Greece and Rome, through modern Europe and America,
and beyond. The world of antiquity and its accounts of excellence,
as represented in the works of Euripides, Aristotle, Plato,
Archimedes, and Cicero, are here brought into dialogue with diverse
modern perspectives on excellence, as articulated by Shakespeare,
Descartes, Newton, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Austen, Darwin, Lincoln,
Tennyson, and Nietzsche, as well as (more recently) by John Dewey,
Martin Luther King Jr., Cardinal Newman, and Eboo Patel. Our desire
to seek and understand excellence transcends borders, and the
purpose of this volume is to help perpetuate in contemporary higher
education the study of core texts essential to the cultivation of
excellence in the liberal arts and sciences.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
