Is twenty-first-century liberal arts modern?
Tidbury I.
2018
Educational Philosophy and Theory
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10.1080/00131857.2017.1341827
In the first part of this paper I explore a recently conceived notion of a modern liberal arts education which brings the ancient Aristotelian search for first principles into a modern metaphysics of Kant and Hegel. In the second part I examine two ways in which this modern conception of a liberal arts education intervenes in important social and political debates in Western culture. My concluding comments centre on the belief that twenty-first-century liberal arts education needs to provide more resistance to a culture of capitalism by orienting itself to the tradition from a modern standpoint. © 2017 Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia.
education in itself; first principles; freedom; leadership; Modern liberal arts; philosophy
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