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Cultivating Humanity - A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education (Paperback, Revised)
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Cultivating Humanity - A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education (Paperback, Revised)
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How can higher education today create a community of critical
thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of
class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and
classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already
producing such "citizens of the world" in its advocacy of diverse
forms of cross-cultural studies. Her vigorous defense 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, Nussbaum
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 us into
classrooms and campuses across the nation, including prominent
research universities, small independent colleges, and religious
institutions, she shows how these values are (and in some instances
are not) being embodied in particular courses. She defends such
burgeoning subject areas 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. For Nussbaum, liberal education is
alive and well on American campuses in the late twentieth century.
It is not only viable, promising, and constructive, but it is
essential to a democratic society. Taking up the challenge of
conservative critics of academe, she argues persuasively that
sustained reform in the aim and content of liberal education is the
most vital and invigorating force in higher education today.
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