Periagoge : liberal education in the modern university

dc.contributor.authorvon Heyking, John
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-19T21:44:00Z
dc.date.available2011-08-19T21:44:00Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionPermission granted by Lee Trepanieren_US
dc.description.abstractChapter contained in the book The Democratic Discourse of Liberal Education". One of the common criticisms of the contemporary university is that it lacks individuals unwilling or incapable even of conversing. Critics such as Anthony Kronman and Stephen Miller rightly observe that there’s something about contemporary culture and the contemporary university hostile to the arts or habits of conversation. Conversation has had a place in liberal education going back at least to the Platonic dialogue, if not back further, should one wish to see things this way, to the point in the evolution of bipeds that sat conversing so long that as apes, they lost their tails and became human beings.2 Conversation as the primary mode of liberal education is not meant to produce “results” but is an ongoing quest for understanding the human condition in all its manifold.en_US
dc.description.peer-reviewNoen_US
dc.identifier.citation“Periagoge: Liberal Education in the Modern University,” in The Democratic Discourse of Liberal Education. Ed. Lee Trepanier. Cedar City, UT: Southern Utah University Press and the Grace A. Tanner Center, 2010. Pp. 160-187.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/2525
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSouthern Utah University Pressen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Political Scienceen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridgeen_US
dc.subjectLiberal educationen_US
dc.subjectModern universityen_US
dc.subjectLearning and scholarshipen_US
dc.subjectHumanities--Study and teachingen_US
dc.subjectConversationen_US
dc.titlePeriagoge : liberal education in the modern universityen_US
dc.typeBook Chapteren_US
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