Inside the Liberal Arts

Critical Thinking and Citizenship

Jeffrey Scheuer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2023
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-6987-3 (ISBN)

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The Logic of the Liberal Arts accomplishes two ambitious goals at once, and shows why they are inseparable: It explains the nature and purpose of liberal learning – to produce critical thinkers and well-rounded democratic citizens – and offers a probing, accessible guided tour of critical thinking, emphasizing the analytic skills that form the intellectual core of all higher education. Becoming better critical thinkers doesn’t mean we have to become philosophers. As users of language, Scheuer explains, we’re already philosophers. Advanced critical thinking simply makes us better philosophers – and better learners and citizens. In lucid and often witty prose, Scheuer guides us through the moral and conceptual heart of the liberal education ideal. In an era when colleges and universities are struggling to convey the value of that ideal to students and parents, The Logic of the Liberal Arts will be a lasting aid to intellectual excellence, and a benchmark for understanding what it means to be an educated citizen.

Jeffrey S. Scheuer is the author of two previous books on media and politics, The Sound Bite Society: How Television Helps the Right and Hurts the Left (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999; Routledge, 2001), a Choice “Outstanding Academic Title,” and The Big Picture: Why Democracies Need Journalistic Excellence (Routledge, 2007). He lives in New York City and West Tisbury, Mass.

Preface

Chapter 1: THE LIBERAL ARTS IDEA

Chapter 2: THE LIBERAL ARTS AND TRIANGULAR CITIZENSHIP

Chapter 3: THE LIBERAL ARTS AS CRITICAL INQUIRY

Chapter 4: LANGUAGE LESSONS

Chapter 5: THE RANGE OF RATIONALITY

Chapter 6: DEFINING CRITICAL THINKING

Chapter 7: THE SPECTRUM OF CRITICAL THINKING

Chapter 8: ANALYSIS 101

Chapter 9: ANALYSIS AND AMBIGUITY

Chapter 10: THE USES OF COMPLEXITY

Chapter 11: TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES

Chapter 12: THE RIDDLE OF CAUSALITY

Chapter 13: MORALITY AND THE LIBERAL ARTS

Chapter 14: DEMOCRACY AND THE LIBERAL ARTS

Erscheinungsdatum	07.02.2023
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 237 mm
Gewicht	463 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-4758-6987-8 / 1475869878
ISBN-13	978-1-4758-6987-3 / 9781475869873
Zustand	Neuware