Cultivating humanity: a classical defense of reform in liberal education Nussbaum, Martha C.

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Nussbaum, Martha C

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Harvard University Press 1998 LondonDescription: xii, 328 pISBN:

9780674179493

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DDC classification:

370.112 N8C8

Summary: 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. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674179493

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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.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674179493

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