Why Choose the Liberal Arts? - Softcover

Roche, Mark William

 
9780268040321: Why Choose the Liberal Arts?
Softcover
ISBN 10: 026804032X ISBN 13: 9780268040321
Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

In a world where the value of a liberal arts education is no longer taken for granted, Mark William Roche lucidly and passionately argues for its essential importance. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience in higher education as a student, faculty member, and administrator, Roche deftly connects the broad theoretical perspective of educators to the practical needs and questions of students and their parents. Roche develops three overlapping arguments for a strong liberal arts education: first, the intrinsic value of learning for its own sake, including exploration of the profound questions that give meaning to life; second, the cultivation of intellectual virtues necessary for success beyond the academy; and third, the formative influence of the liberal arts on character and on the development of a sense of higher purpose and vocation. Together with his exploration of these three values—intrinsic, practical, and idealistic—Roche reflects on ways to integrate them, interweaving empirical data with personal experience. Why Choose the Liberal Arts? is an accessible and thought-provoking work of interest to students, parents, and administrators.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark William Roche is the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of German Language and Literature, concurrent professor of philosophy, and former dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of many books, including Realizing the Distinctive University (University of Notre Dame Press, 2017) and Why Choose the Liberal Arts? (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), which won the Frederic W. Ness Book Award.

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Verlag
University of Notre Dame Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
026804032X
ISBN 13 
9780268040321
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
210
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