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Charles W. Anderson

Prescribing the Life of the Mind

Essay on the Purpose of the University, the Aims of Liberal Education and the Cultivation of Practical Reason

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A distinguished political philosopher with years of experience teaching in undergraduate liberal arts programs, Anderson shows how the ideal of practical reason can reconcile academia's research aims with public expectations for universities: the preparation of citizens, the training of professionals, the communication of a cultural inheritance. It is not good enough, he contends, to simply say that the university should stick to the great books of the classic tradition, or to denounce this tradition and declare that all important questions are a matter of personal or cultural choice. By applying the methods of practical reason, instead, teac… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-299-13834-9
  • EAN: 9780299138349
  • Produktnummer: 1612367
  • Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 272 g
  • Gewicht: 272
  • Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor


Charles W. Anderson is the Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His earlier books published by the University of Wisconsin Press are The Political Economy of Modern Spain and The Political Economy of Mexico, co-authored by William P. Glade, Jr.

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