Review: Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
User Review - John - GoodreadsThere is a debate in the humanities about the relevance of the western cannon. Neo-conservatives think it is important for the west to have its own distinct identity which is cultivated by the ... Read full review
Review: Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
User Review - Kurt Xyst - GoodreadsThis book is largely a defense of the western tradition of faculty-centric education in the model of Socratic force of personality. Students in humanistic disciplines (her primary focus) can a) be ... Read full review
Review: Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
User Review - Rachel - Goodreads“There is no greater threat to democracy than the unreflective, assertive citizen.” Martha Nussbaum's Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education is an inspiring guide to ... Read full review
Review: Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
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Review: Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
User Review - Jenny - GoodreadsGenerally ok; I mostly skimmed and then read the last chapter because a friend had asked me about it a while back (Socrates and the Religious University). The chapter felt dated at this point, and the ... Read full review
Review: Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
User Review - Elizabeth - GoodreadsILL c1997 maaybe I can buy this now???? also read ch 6 women's studies http://www.bookrags.com/research/nuss... Martha Nussbaum has contributed to ethics, political theory, classics, philosophy of ... Read full review
Review: Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
User Review - Rebecca - GoodreadsThe basis of this book is that democracy relies upon developing "citizens of the world" who ask questions about their beliefs and traditions and try to learn as much as possible about other cultures ... Read full review
Review: Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
User Review - Tracy - GoodreadsThis is a terrific book that accomplishes something rare: It argues in favor of both a fairly classical education and a strongly multicultural education *at the same time*. Nussbaum's aeguments are ... Read full review
Review: Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
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Review: Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
User Review - Derek Pyle - Goodreadsvery academic...lots of info, the info is very well supported (supported too much I might say) reading it for a class, we pull interesting stuff out of it in class but... Read full review
