Prescribing The Life Of The Mind: An Essay On The Purpose Of The University, The Aims Of Liberal Education, The Competence Of Citizens, And The Cultivation Of Practical Reason
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Prescribing the Life of the Mind: An Essay on the Purpose of the University, the Aims of Liberal Education, the Competence of Citizens, and the Cultivation of Practical Reason
A distinguished political philosopher with years of experience teaching in undergraduate liberal arts programs, Anderson shows how the ideal of practical reason can reconcile academia’s research aims with public expectations for universities: the preparation of citizens, the training of professionals, the communication of a cultural inheritance. It is not good enough, he contends, to simply say that the university should stick to the great books of the classic tradition, or to denounce this tradition and declare that all important questions are a matter of personal or cultural choice. By applying the methods of practical reason, instead, teachers and students will think critically about the essential purposes of any human activity and the underlying arguments of any text.
Specification of Prescribing the Life of the Mind: An Essay on the Purpose of the University, the Aims of Liberal Education, the Competence of Citizens, and the Cultivation of Practical Reason
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Author | Charles W. Anderson |
Binding | Paperback |
Language | English |
Edition | New edition |
ISBN-10 | 0299138348 |
ISBN-13 | 9780299138349 |
Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press |
Publication Year | 1996 |
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Height | 6 inch. |
Length | 0.7 inch. |
Width | 9 inch. |
Weight | 0.6 pounds. |
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