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Book SynopsisThis volume reminds readers that dedicated teachers at colleges and universities are passing on the heritage of liberal education as well as constructing its future. All readers will benefit from the insights of this volume the historical, ethical, literary and philosophical perspectives provided by core text liberal arts education.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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
