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A New Vision Of Liberal Education: The Good Of The Unexamined Life, Daniel R. Denicola
A New Vision Of Liberal Education: The Good Of The Unexamined Life, Daniel R. Denicola
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Alistair Miller’s book, A New Vision of Liberal Education, is a dilation of his doctoral thesis, but it is enormously ambitious in aim: “My specific aim in this book is to explore whether aspects of the two traditions [of Enlightenment and Aristotelian ethics] might be synthesised in the concrete form of a liberal-humanist education” (NVLE, 11). Indeed, the arc of Miller’s argument ranges from these contrasting traditions of moral philosophy, through alternate versions of liberal education, to a proposal for curricular content. The book is well researched and proceeds dialectically, as Miller sifts through scholarship on liberal education, moral education, …
Teaching About The Politics Of Religion And Social Change, Dean Johnson
Teaching About The Politics Of Religion And Social Change, Dean Johnson
Philosophy Faculty Publications
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Adam Smith And The Stages Of Moral Development, Daniel R. Denicola
Adam Smith And The Stages Of Moral Development, Daniel R. Denicola
Philosophy Faculty Publications
The writer explores Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, where Smith presents a rich and provocative account of morality. The writer offers an explication of Smith's moral psychology as a stage theory of moral development, with the intention of generating critical points on both mattes of detail and larger implications.