Description
Book SynopsisThe Logic of the Liberal Arts accomplishes two ambitious goals at once, and shows why they are inseparable: It explains the nature and purpose of liberal learning to produce critical thinkers and well-rounded democratic citizens and offers a probing, accessible guided tour of critical thinking, emphasizing the analytic skills that form the intellectual core of all higher education. Becoming better critical thinkers doesn't mean we have to become philosophers. As users of language, Scheuer explains, we're already philosophers. Advanced critical thinking simply makes us better philosophers and better learners and citizens. In lucid and often witty prose, Scheuer guides us through the moral and conceptual heart of the liberal education ideal. In an era when colleges and universities are struggling to convey the value of that ideal to students and parents, The Logic of the Liberal Arts will be a lasting aid to intellectual excellence, and a benchmark for understanding what it means t
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: THE LIBERAL ARTS IDEA
Chapter 2: THE LIBERAL ARTS AND TRIANGULAR CITIZENSHIP
Chapter 3: THE LIBERAL ARTS AS CRITICAL INQUIRY
Chapter 4: LANGUAGE LESSONS
Chapter 5: THE RANGE OF RATIONALITY
Chapter 6: DEFINING CRITICAL THINKING
Chapter 7: THE SPECTRUM OF CRITICAL THINKING
Chapter 8: ANALYSIS 101
Chapter 9: ANALYSIS AND AMBIGUITY
Chapter 10: THE USES OF COMPLEXITY
Chapter 11: TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES
Chapter 12: THE RIDDLE OF CAUSALITY
Chapter 13: MORALITY AND THE LIBERAL ARTS
Chapter 14: DEMOCRACY AND THE LIBERAL ARTS
