By Ronald W. Sousa;Joel Weinsheimer
ISBN-10: 155753117X
ISBN-13: 9781557531179
Disturbed by means of acrimonious arguments concerning the price of humanistic schooling, the authors-former colleagues and university-press board members-embarked on an formidable undertaking to reexamine a few significant literary and philosophical works facing the liberal arts and schooling. With their discussions starting from Plat to Rousseau, from Cicero to Vico, from Erasmus to Matthew Arnold, Sousa and Weinsheimer provide now not a heritage of schooling philosophy yet an exam of the current. They learn those astonishingly diversified works with one query preferable: "Do our predecessors' reflections provide whatever larger in protection of humanities schooling than sleek platitudes approximately broadening one's horizons?"