Human Dignity, Education, and Political Society

A Philosophical Defense of the Liberal Arts
Herausgeber: Greenaway, James

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the interrelation of human dignity, education, and political society, and discusses why liberal education is best suited to dignified personal and political life. It sets out what is perennially important about such an education, tracks its development historically, and presents relevant contemporary issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9781793611000
• ISBN-10: 1793611009
• Artikelnr.: 58819381

Autorenporträt

Edited by James Greenaway - Contributions by Glenn Hughes; John von Heyking; Rebecca LeMoine; Lee Trepanier; S. F. McGuire; Ann Ward; Carol Browning Cooper and Alex Ambrose

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Liberal Education as Invitation, James Greenaway
Part I: Liberal Education and a Life Well Lived
Chapter One: Dignity, Equality, and Liberal Arts Education, Glenn Hughes
Chapter Two: Liberal Education and the Recovery of Personal and Political
Existence, James Greenaway
Chapter Three: Liberal Education, Friendship, and the "Political Art in the
True Sense", John von Heyking
Part II: Thinkers on Dignity and Education in History
Chapter Four: Leisure and Human Dignity in Ancient Greek Political Thought,
Rebecca LeMoine
Chapter Five: Medieval Dignity, Modern Education, Lee Trepanier
Chapter Six: Kant, Dignity, and Liberal Education in a Technological Age,
S. F. McGuire
Part III: Contemporary Topics in Dignity and Education
Chapter Seven: Human Dignity, Sexual Equality and the Education of the Soul
in Plato's Republic, Ann Ward
Chapter Eight: Childhood as the Paradigm for Political Education, Carol
Browning Cooper
Chapter Nine: Reconciled to the World: Campus Ministry Publishing in an Age
of Identity Politics, Alex Ambrose