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Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
Martha Craven Nussbaum
- 01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: O'Brien as discussed by the authors discusses the Silent Crisis, education for profit and education for democracy, the Moral (and Anti-Moral) Emotions, and the Importance of Argument.
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Abstract: Foreword by Ruth O'Brien ix Acknowledgments xiii Chapter I: The Silent Crisis 1 Chapter II: Education for Profit, Education for Democracy 13 Chapter III: Educating Citizens: The Moral (and Anti-Moral) Emotions 27 Chapter IV: Socratic Pedagogy: The Importance of Argument 47 Chapter V: Citizens of the World 79 Chapter VI: Cultivating Imagination: Literature and the Arts 95 Chapter VII: Democratic Education on the Ropes 121 Notes 145 Index 153
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