{"product_id":"inside-the-liberal-arts-9781475869880","title":"Inside the Liberal Arts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: THE LIBERAL ARTS IDEA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: THE LIBERAL ARTS AND TRIANGULAR CITIZENSHIP\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: THE LIBERAL ARTS AS CRITICAL INQUIRY \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: LANGUAGE LESSONS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: THE RANGE OF RATIONALITY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: DEFINING CRITICAL THINKING\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: THE SPECTRUM OF CRITICAL THINKING\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: ANALYSIS 101\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: ANALYSIS AND AMBIGUITY \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: THE USES OF COMPLEXITY \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: THE RIDDLE OF CAUSALITY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: MORALITY AND THE LIBERAL ARTS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: DEMOCRACY AND THE LIBERAL ARTS \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040366494039,"sku":"9781475869880","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781475869880.jpg?v=1750946525","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/inside-the-liberal-arts-9781475869880","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}