LEADER 03586nam 2200529 450 001 9910798696103321 005 20180613003109.0 010 $a0-7618-6813-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000830116 035 $a(EBL)4635230 035 $a(OCoLC)956505567 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4635230 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000830116 100 $a20160826h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe quest for excellence $eliberal arts, sciences, and core texts /$fedited by Dustin Gish, Chris Constas, J. Scott Lee 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cHamilton Books,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (220 p.) 225 1 $aAssociation for Core Texts and Courses 300 $a"Selected Proceedings from the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses New Haven, Connecticut April 14-17, 2011." 311 $a0-7618-6812-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aExcellence 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 ; Ancients 327 $aResisting 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 Contract 327 $aCore 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? 330 $aThe essays in this volume reflect on the idea of excellence embedded within core texts, as well as how such texts influence and ennoble higher education. The authors consider rival forms of excellence from ancient Greece and Rome, through modern Europe and America, and beyond. 410 0$aAssociation for Core Texts and Courses 606 $aEducation, Humanistic$xPhilosophy 606 $aEducation, Higher$xAims and objectives 615 0$aEducation, Humanistic$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEducation, Higher$xAims and objectives. 676 $a370.112 702 $aGish$b Dustin 702 $aConstas$b Chris 702 $aLee$b J. Scott 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798696103321 996 $aThe quest for excellence$93837974 997 $aUNINA