Open AccessBook
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.
read more
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
read more
Chat with Paper
AI Agents for this Paper
Find similar papers on Google Scholar, PubMed and Arxiv
Write a critical review of this paper
Analyze citations of this paper to find unaddressed research gaps
Citations
Channelling discomfort through the arts: A Covid-19 case study through an intercultural telecollaboration project
TL;DR: In the context of the current dominance of the performative and instrumental drives characterizing the accountable university, the authors argue that language and intercultural communication education in universities should also be humanistic, addressing discomforting themes to sensitize students to issues of human suffering and engage them in constructive and creative responses to that suffering.
20
Recovering Nussbaum's Aristotelian roots
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between creating capabilities and political liberalism and argue that the reality of climate change calls for the capabilities approach to be more rooted in a relational anthropology which the Aristotelian ethical tradition is more akin to.
The Challenges of the Humanities, Past, Present, and Future: Why the Middle Ages Mean So Much for Us Today and Tomorrow
TL;DR: The authors argue that if one takes out the past as the foundation of culture, one endangers the further development of culture at large and becomes victim of an overarching and controlling master narrative.
20
Explorations of Linkages Between Intercultural Dialogue, Art, and Empathy
Tuuli Lähdesmäki,Aino-Kaisa Koistinen +1 more
- 01 Jan 2021
TL;DR: Blommaert and Rampton as mentioned in this paper argued that Europe has become an increasingly diverse and pluricultural continent where many people simultaneously identify with multiple different cultural and social groups, and that European societies diversity itself is broad, multidimensional, and fluid.
World History, Liberal Arts, and Global Citizenship
TL;DR: The authors investigates how world history can help recraft the liberal arts to better serve an interconnected, cosmopolitan, and "globalized" world in the twenty-first century, arguing that world history could help students, citizens, and educators transcend real and imagined boundaries to become more empathetic and insightful "global citizens."
19