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UNINA9910965265803321 |
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Ferrall Victor E. <1936-> |
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Liberal arts at the brink / / Victor E. Ferrall, Jr |
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Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2011 |
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9780674263390 |
0674263391 |
9780674060883 |
0674060881 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 288 p.) |
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Education, Humanistic - United States |
Small colleges - United States |
United States Intellectual life |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Liberal arts colleges and why we should care about them -- The economic health of liberal arts colleges -- The declining demand for liberal arts education -- Competing -- Cooperating -- Recruiting -- Liberal arts teachers: a profile -- Employing and deploying faculty for teaching excellence -- Tenure -- Curriculums -- At the brink. |
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Liberal arts colleges represent a tiny portion of the higher education market-no more than 2 percent of enrollees. Yet they produce a stunningly large percentage of America's leaders in virtually every field of endeavor. The educational experience they offer-small classes led by professors devoted to teaching and mentoring, in a community dedicated to learning-has been a uniquely American higher education ideal.Liberal Arts at the Brink is a wake-up call for everyone who values liberal arts education. A former college president trained in law and economics, Ferrall shows how a spiraling demand for career-related education has pressured liberal arts colleges to become vocational, distorting their mission and core values. The relentless competition among them to attract the "best" students has driven down tuition revenues while driving up operating expenses to levels the colleges cannot cover. The weakest are being forced to sell out to vocational |
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for-profit universities or close their doors. The handful of wealthy elite colleges risk becoming mere dispensers of employment and professional school credentials. The rest face the prospect of moving away from liberal arts and toward vocational education in order to survive. Writing in a personable, witty style, Ferrall tackles the host of threats and challenges liberal arts colleges now confront. Despite these daunting realities, he makes a spirited case for the unique benefits of the education they offer-to students and the nation. He urges liberal arts colleges to stop going it alone and instead band together to promote their mission and ensure their future. |
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UNINA9910959210103321 |
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Autore |
Fine Gail |
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On ideas : Aristotle's criticism of Plato's theory of forms / / Gail Fine |
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 |
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0-19-159739-2 |
0-19-151951-0 |
1-282-05191-1 |
9786612051913 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (417 p.) |
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Form (Philosophy) |
Universals (Philosophy) |
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Includes Greek text and English translation of Aristotle's Peri ideon (p. [1]-19). |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-376) and indexes. |
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""1. Introduction""""2. The first Argument from the Sciences""; ""3. The second Argument from the Sciences""; ""4. The third Argument from the Sciences""; ""5. Conclusion""; ""6. FORMS OF ARTEFACTS""; ""7. PLATO AND THE ARGUMENTS FROM THE SCIENCES""; ""1. Socrates and the Arguments from the Sciences""; ""2. Plato and the premisses of the Arguments from the Sciences""; ""3. Plato and the conclusion of the |
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Arguments from the Sciences""; ""4. The Imperfection Argument""; ""5. Broad compresence""; ""6. Artefact forms again""; ""8. THE ONE OVER MANY ARGUMENT: FORMS AND PREDICATION"" |
""1. Introduction""""2. The One over Many Argument""; ""3. What is predicated?""; ""4. Negations""; ""5. Plato's One over Many Argument""; ""6. Forms of negations?""; ""7. Separation""; ""9. THE OBJECT OF THOUGHT ARGUMENT: FORMS AND THOUGHT""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Object of Thought Argument""; ""3. Aristotle's first objection to the Object of Thought Argument""; ""4. Aristotle's second objection to the Object of Thought Argument""; ""5. Plato and the Object of Thought Argument""; ""6. Conclusion""; ""10. THE ARGUMENT FROM RELATIVES""; ""1. Introduction"" |
""2. An overview of the argument""""3. Homonymy, synonymy, and focal connection""; ""4. A puzzle""; ""5. A second puzzle""; ""6. Why equality is homonymous if it is defined in sensible terms""; ""7. How to avoid homonymy""; ""8. How the Argument from Relatives conceives forms""; ""9. Why the Argument from the Relatives is a more accurate argument""; ""10. Conclusion""; ""11. COMPLETENESS AND COMPRESENCE: OWEN ON THE ARGUMENT FROM RELATIVES""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Completeness""; ""3. Owen's account of the Argument from Relatives""; ""4. Three criticisms""; ""12. KATH' HAUTO AND PROS TI"" |
""1. Introduction"" |
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Gail Fine's On Ideas is a study of Book 1 of Aristotle's short essay Peri Ideon, in which Aristotle presents a systematic account of a series of five arguments for the existence of Platonic forms along with a series of objections to each of these arguments. |
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