Let's Be Reasonable (eBook)

A Conservative Case for Liberal Education

Jonathan Marks (Autor)

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2021
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20771-1 (ISBN)

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A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal educationNot so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F. Buckley Jr. believed universities were worth fighting for. Today, conservatives seem more inclined to burn them down. In Let's Be Reasonable, conservative political theorist and professor Jonathan Marks finds in liberal education an antidote to this despair, arguing that the true purpose of college is to encourage people to be reasonable-and revealing why the health of our democracy is at stake.Drawing on the ideas of John Locke and other thinkers, Marks presents the case for why, now more than ever, conservatives must not give up on higher education. He recognizes that professors and administrators frequently adopt the language and priorities of the left, but he explains why conservative nightmare visions of liberal persecution and indoctrination bear little resemblance to what actually goes on in college classrooms. Marks examines why advocates for liberal education struggle to offer a coherent defense of themselves against their conservative critics, and demonstrates why such a defense must rest on the cultivation of reason and of pride in being reasonable.More than just a campus battlefield guide, Let's Be Reasonable recovers what is truly liberal about liberal education-the ability to reason for oneself and with others-and shows why the liberally educated person considers reason to be more than just a tool for scoring political points.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.2.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: academic freedom • Academic Politics • Academic tenure • activism • Affirmative Action • Allan Bloom • alt-right • alumnus • andrew delbanco • Anecdote • anti-Israel movement • Apartheid • BDS Movement • bipartisanship • Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions • Bullshit • campus left • campus politics • Career • Carthage College • Censorship • Christine Korsgaard • Citizenship • civic engagement • Civil Rights Movement • Classroom • Closing of the American Mind • Connecticut College • Conservatism • conservative professors • Consideration • Conspiracy Theory • critical thinking • Criticism • Curriculum • demagogue • Determination • Diversity • Explanation • freedom of speech • Free Speech • Generation Z • george will • God and Man at Yale • great books • greatness • Greg Lukianoff • Heterodox Academy • Humanities • Individualism • Institute for Humane Studies • Institution • Intellectual • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Jeffrey Kopstein • Jews • John Locke • Jonathan Haidt • Lecture • Leon Kass • Liberal Arts • Liberal arts education • Liberal Education • Liberalism • Mark Edmundson • Martha Nussbaum • Michigan State University • Morality • Nonviolence • obstacle • of education • Oligarchy • Oppression • optimism • palestinians • patron saint • pessimism • Philosopher • Political Philosophy • Political Science • political theory and education • Politician • Politics • Politics and Education • Prejudice • Profession • Professor • Propaganda • Protest • Racism • Radicalism (historical) • Rationality • reason • Reasonable Person • Relativism • Richard Rorty • Robert Maynard Hutchins • Rod Dreher • Rousseau • self-esteem • skepticism • Slavery • social liberalism • Some Thoughts Concerning Education • SOPHISM • Sorensen • Student • Student activism • student loan • student protests • Syllabus • Teacher • The Closing of the American Mind • The New York Times • theory • The Philosopher • Thought • Tocqueville • University • Ursinus College • W.E.B. Du Bois • white supremacy • Yale University • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20771-2 / 0691207712
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20771-1 / 9780691207711