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Let's Be Reasonable - A Conservative Case for Liberal Education (Paperback)
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Let's Be Reasonable - A Conservative Case for Liberal Education (Paperback)
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Loot Price R478
Discovery Miles 4 780
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A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal
education Not so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as
William F. Buckley Jr. believed universities were worth fighting
for. Today, conservatives seem more inclined to burn them down. In
Let's Be Reasonable, conservative political theorist and professor
Jonathan Marks finds in liberal education an antidote to this
despair, arguing that the true purpose of college is to encourage
people to be reasonable-and revealing why the health of our
democracy is at stake. Drawing on the ideas of John Locke and other
thinkers, Marks presents the case for why, now more than ever,
conservatives must not give up on higher education. He recognizes
that professors and administrators frequently adopt the language
and priorities of the left, but he explains why conservative
nightmare visions of liberal persecution and indoctrination bear
little resemblance to what actually goes on in college classrooms.
Marks examines why advocates for liberal education struggle to
offer a coherent defense of themselves against their conservative
critics, and demonstrates why such a defense must rest on the
cultivation of reason and of pride in being reasonable. More than
just a campus battlefield guide, Let's Be Reasonable recovers what
is truly liberal about liberal education-the ability to reason for
oneself and with others-and shows why the liberally educated person
considers reason to be more than just a tool for scoring political
points.
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