Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal EducationHarvard University Press, 1998 M10 1 - 344 páginas How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such “citizens of the world” in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. Her vigorous defense of “the new education” is rooted in Seneca’s ideal of the citizen who scrutinizes tradition critically and who respects the ability to reason wherever it is found—in rich or poor, native or foreigner, female or male. |
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CHAPTER ONE Socratic SelfExamination | 15 |
CHAPTER TWO Citizens of the World | 50 |
CHAPTER THREE The Narrative Imagination | 85 |
CHAPTER FOUR The Study of NonWestern Cultures | 113 |
CHAPTER FIVE AfricanAmerican Studies | 148 |
CHAPTER SIX Womens Studies | 186 |
CHAPTER SEVEN The Study of Human Sexuality | 222 |
CHAPTER EIGHT Socrates in the Religious University | 257 |
CONCLUSION The New Liberal Education | 293 |