Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction
Richard Dagger, Christopher Metress, and J. Scott Lee
Plenary Addresses
Whither Philosophy? Richard Kamber
The Cunning of Tradition Wilfred M. McClay
Of the Wings of Atalanta—Meaning and Dualism in DuBois, Morrison, and Historically Black, Liberal Arts Education Grant D. Venerable
Platonic Forms as a Model of Modern Physics: Confessions of an Experimental Physicist Steven Turley
Liberal Education and the Liberal Arts
Liberal Education: Transmitting Knowledge through Texts Molly Brigid Flynn
Why Should Science Majors Waste Their Time on Great Books James J. Donovan
Medieval Political Philosophy, Christianity, and the Liberal Arts Benjamin Smith
Thinking about Thinking about Justice: The Abolition of Man and Reflections on Education Storm Bailey
The Futility of Escaping the Mind: Invisible Man and a Liberal Education David Dolence
An Exemplary Model of Core Text Education: Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions as a Paradigm Provider Bryan Johnson
Memory and the Classical Heritage
Homer and the Duty of Remembrance Karl Schudt
Justius Lipsius and the Re-Invention of Stoicism Andrew Terjesen
"Literaturizing" Life: Reading and Misreading Honor in Petronius' Satyricon Michael J. Mordine
Hobbes's Thucydides and Homer: Translation as Political Thought Laurie M. Johnson Bagby
"But I Did Not Love Only Him": Helping Students Discern Platonic Values in Sense and Sensibility Steven Epley
Freedom and Happiness from the Renaissance to Modernity
The Originality of Pico's Oration Neil G. Robertson
Death and Core Tradition in a Polish Renaissance Lament James Roney
Freedom and Its Limits: Moliere's Don Juan as Free-Thinker Diane Fourny
