Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education Vanessa Miller ISBN10: 0996016740

ISBN10: 0996016740

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Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education Vanessa Miller ISBN10: 0996016740How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such citizens of the world in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross cultural studies. Her vigorous defense of the new education is rooted in Seneca's ideal of the citizen who scrutinizes