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The Quest for Excellence: Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Core Texts. Selected Proceedings from the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses(Association for Core Texts and Courses)

The Quest for Excellence: Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Core Texts. Selected Proceedings from the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses(Association for Core Texts and Courses)


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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction Dustin Gish and Christopher Constas The Idea of Excellence in Higher Education The Rough Magic of Liberal Arts Education: Shakespeare’s The Tempest David Southward Friendship and Excellence: Bringing out the Best within Us Carrie-Ann Biondi Socratic Perplexity and Communal Arete: Turning with Socrates to the Wisdom of the Generations Susan O. Bachman and James V. Bachman Teaching the Truth of Tragedy: Euripides’ Bacchae James M. Kee Classical Liberal Learning and the Integrative Habit of Mind Dominic A. Aquila Excellence through the Ages (and the Canon) The Mast and the Cosmos: The Roman Origins of the Liberal Arts Tradition in Cicero’s Dream of Scipio Robert E. Proctor Excellence Redefined: Cicero and the Heroic Ethics William Stull Excellence and the Arthurian Ideal in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King Charlotte England A Claim for the Less Than Excellent Life: Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice Samuel Ajzenstat Descartes and the Great Books: Homelessness as Excellence Samuel A. Stoner Faustian Striving, the Quest for Excellence, and the Search for Meaning Erik Liddell Plato’s Apology of Socrates and King’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail”: Excellence in Civic Engagement David Faldet Core Texts on Excellence and Education Ancients Resisting the Dissolution of the Body Politic in Euripides’ Bacchae: A Corporeal Condition for the Pursuit of Excellence Dustin Gish The Divided Soul in Platonic and Aristotelian Philosophy Lorraine Pangle Moderation and the Best Life: The Education of Glaucon in Plato’s Republic Alan Pichanick Love of Wisdom or Wisdom of Love as a Pursuit of Excellence in Plato’s Symposium Amy S. Bush The Love of Beauty and the Pursuit of Excellence: What Plato’s Phaedrus Teaches about Teaching Margaret I. Hughes Moderns A Sound Mind in a Sound Body: John Locke on Education Trevor Shelley Both Man and Citizen: Introducing Rousseau’s Emile Joshua A. Shmikler Forced to Be Free? Rousseau’s Social Contract Jon Rick Core Rhetoric: Lincoln’s First and Second Inaugural Addresses Leslie G. Rubin Nietzsche’s Question: A Reading of Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism #1 Matthew K. Davis John Dewey’s Faith in Progress: An Impediment to Liberal Education Luigi Bradizza Expanding the Core in the Name of Excellence The Sand Reckoner: Archimedes’ Exploration of Large Numbers Samuel R. Kaplan Space, Time, and Place in Newton’s Principia and Aristotle’s Physics Brian Schwartz Darwin’s Descent of Man and the Study of Science from a Liberal Arts Perspective Daniel J. McKaughan Las Casas’s In Defense of the Indians: Can a Just War Be Waged against Barbarians? Peter Diamond Connecting the Good and the Beautiful in Plato and Aldo Leopold Craig Condella Inculturation and Global Core Curricula: Primer for Youth (Tongmong sonsup ????) as a Korean Core Text James Jinhong Kim Religious Difference and Multiculturalism in the Liberal Arts: Reading Eboo Patel Reading Core Texts and Courses Wilson C. Chen Plenary Addresses on Excellence in Education After the Fall: An Historical Reappraisal of Liberal Education (Everything Has to Change, If Things Are to Stay the Same) John Dowling Age of Freedom—Education for Freedom: How Can Kant Speak to Us Today? G. Felicitas Munzel

About the Author :
Dustin Gish is a member of The Honors College Faculty at the University of Houston, where he teaches Great Books seminars and courses in Political Theory. His teaching career spans almost two decades, having previously taught political philosophy, classical studies, and American government courses at The American University of Rome and College of the Holy Cross. His scholarly work has appeared in journal articles, book chapters, and edited volumes on classical and early modern political philosophy – especially the political thought of Xenophon, Plato, Shakespeare, and the American Founding, including, most recently, his co-authored book, Thomas Jefferson and the Science of Republican Government (Cambridge University Press). Chris Constas is Associate Professor of the Practice of the Humanities in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program at Boston College. ? J. Scott Lee is the Executive Director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and Series Editor for the ACTC Annual Proceedings.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780761868132
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Association for Core Texts and Courses
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0761868135
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 220
  • Sub Title: Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Core Texts. Selected Proceedings from the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses


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