03586nam 2200529 450 991079869610332120180613003109.00-7618-6813-5(CKB)3710000000830116(EBL)4635230(OCoLC)956505567(MiAaPQ)EBC4635230(EXLCZ)99371000000083011620160826h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe quest for excellence liberal arts, sciences, and core texts /edited by Dustin Gish, Chris Constas, J. Scott LeeLanham, Maryland :Hamilton Books,2016.©20161 online resource (220 p.)Association for Core Texts and Courses"Selected Proceedings from the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses New Haven, Connecticut April 14-17, 2011."0-7618-6812-7 Includes bibliographical references.Excellence Redefined: Cicero and the Heroic EthicsExcellence and the Arthurian Ideal in Tennyson's Idylls of the King ; A Claim for the Less Than Excellent Life: Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice ; Descartes and the Great Books: Homelessness as Excellence; Faustian Striving, the Quest for Excellence, and the Search for Meaning ; Plato's Apology of Socrates and King's "Letter from Birmingham City Jail": Excellence in Civic Engagement ; Core Texts on Excellence and Education ; AncientsResisting the Dissolution of the Body Politic in Euripides' Bacchae: A Corporeal Condition for the Pursuit of ExcellenceThe Divided Soul in Platonic and Aristotelian Philosophy; Moderation and the Best Life: The Education of Glaucon in Plato's Republic; Love of Wisdom or Wisdom of Love as a Pursuit of Excellence in Plato's Symposium; The Love of Beauty and the Pursuit of Excellence: What Plato's Phaedrus Teaches about Teaching; Moderns; A Sound Mind in a Sound Body: John Locke on Education; Both Man and Citizen: Introducing Rousseau's Emile; Forced to Be Free? Rousseau's Social ContractCore Rhetoric: Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural AddressesNietzsche's Question: A Reading of Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism #1; John Dewey's Faith in Progress: An Impediment to Liberal Education; Expanding the Core in the Name of Excellence; The Sand Reckoner: Archimedes' Exploration of Large Numbers; Space, Time, and Place in Newton's Principia and Aristotle's Physics; Darwin's Descent of Man and the Study of Science from a Liberal Arts Perspective; Las Casas's In Defense of the Indians: Can a Just War Be Waged against Barbarians?The essays in this volume reflect on the idea of excellence embedded within core texts, as well as how such texts influence and ennoble higher education. The authors consider rival forms of excellence from ancient Greece and Rome, through modern Europe and America, and beyond.Association for Core Texts and CoursesEducation, HumanisticPhilosophyEducation, HigherAims and objectivesEducation, HumanisticPhilosophy.Education, HigherAims and objectives.370.112Gish DustinConstas ChrisLee J. ScottMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798696103321The quest for excellence3837974UNINA