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The Quest for Excellence - Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Core Texts. Selected Proceedings from the Seventeenth Annual Conference... The Quest for Excellence - Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Core Texts. Selected Proceedings from the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses (Paperback)
Dustin Gish, Chris Constas, J. Scott Lee
R1,005 Discovery Miles 10 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Engaging Worlds - Core Texts and Cultural Contexts. Selected Proceedings from the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the... Engaging Worlds - Core Texts and Cultural Contexts. Selected Proceedings from the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses (Paperback)
J. Scott Lee, Robert D Anderson, Molly Brigid Flynn
R870 Discovery Miles 8 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Engaging Worlds: Core Texts and Cultural Contexts asks what do we learn of texts, cultures, and the world's dynamics when we read core texts, widely and deeply, in core-structured programs of the world's colleges and universities? What books, what arts, what associations and institutions, what sciences, what religions, what cultures, what educations, what citizens, what scholars, are we preparing for the future through an education in core texts that engages our worlds? The answers offered in these selected proceedings are drawn from the widest possible spectrum of institutions and disciplines who, through core programs, offer horizon-expanding liberal educations.

Memory, Invention, and Delivery - Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge and Culture in Liberal Arts Education for the Future.... Memory, Invention, and Delivery - Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge and Culture in Liberal Arts Education for the Future. Selected Proceedings from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses (Paperback)
Richard Dagger, Christopher Metress, J. Scott Lee
R871 Discovery Miles 8 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In a time when liberal arts education is increasingly under attack, 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. Future citizens, businesswomen and men, scientists, artists and those working in educational or social programs will all benefit from the insights of this volume into historical, ethical, literary and philosophical perspectives provided by core text liberal arts education.

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