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Singapore Management University

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2004

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Learning To Live A Life That's Full, Seow Hon Tan Sep 2004

Learning To Live A Life That's Full, Seow Hon Tan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

No abstract provided.


Learning To Live A Life That's Full, Seow Hon Tan Sep 2004

Learning To Live A Life That's Full, Seow Hon Tan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

No abstract provided.


Using The Economic Concept Of A 'Merit Good' To Justify The Teaching Of Ethics Across The University Curriculum, Mark Nowacki, Wilfried Ver Eecke Apr 2004

Using The Economic Concept Of A 'Merit Good' To Justify The Teaching Of Ethics Across The University Curriculum, Mark Nowacki, Wilfried Ver Eecke

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Philosophers often lament the limited role that philosophy plays in the intellectual formation of the average university student. Once central to university life—there was a time when the study of philosophy defined what it meant to be a student of the liberal arts—philosophy as a subject of study has become marginalized. It is a painful reality that in many universities philosophy has been reduced to the status of a fluffy elective, a course of study to be conscientiously avoided by the more "practical" and "hard nosed" students bent upon success in the pragmatic worlds of business and politics. Only classical …