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    • Bees Brexit and some fascism
    • The Examined Life
    • Reading Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
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    • The Seven Liberal Arts
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    • A Tale of Two Schools
    • The unexamined life is not worth living
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      • Plato and the Soul
      • Starry starry night
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      • Plato’s cave
      • Freedom and Discipline: embodied creativity
      • Space & Sound: in the body and beyond
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  • Undergraduate
    • BA Liberal Arts
      • Interdisciplinary Curriculum
      • Teachers & Curriculum
      • Student Testimonials
      • Taught Modules 19-20
    • Teaching, Learning, Studying
  • Postgraduate
    • MA Liberal Arts
    • PhD/Research
    • Bees Brexit and some fascism
    • The Examined Life
    • Reading Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
    • MA Liberal Arts Seminar series 2019-20
  • History of Liberal Arts
    • Trivium and Quadrivium
    • The Seven Liberal Arts
    • Why Modern?
    • What is a University?
    • Philosophy of the Teacher
    • Liberal Arts in the Media
    • Books & Articles
    • Philosophers on Liberal Arts
    • International
    • Brexit
  • Teaching
    • Dear Teacher…
    • Teacher: Know Thyself
    • Philosophy of the Teacher
    • Vocation
    • Graduate routes into teaching
  • Liberal Arts for Teachers
    • Vision and Values
    • The Project
    • A Tale of Two Schools
    • The unexamined life is not worth living
    • Classes
      • Plato and the Soul
      • Starry starry night
    • Workshops
      • Plato’s cave
      • Freedom and Discipline: embodied creativity
      • Space & Sound: in the body and beyond
    • Interviews
    • Testimonials
    • Gallery
  • Employability

Philosophers on Liberal Arts

Bibliography for Philosophy of Liberal EducationThe History of Higher Education (online readings)

Robert Pippin: Liberation and the Liberal Arts

Leon Botstein (Bard): on useful humanities

Joseph Epstein: Who Killed the Liberal Arts?

Juha Himanka: University Curriculum—Recent Philosophical Reflections and Practical Implementations, (open access).

Henry S. Harris musing on Plato and Liberal Education

Leo Strauss: Liberal Education and Responsibility

Leo Strauss: What is Liberal Education? (1959)

Andrew Fleming West: The Seven Liberal Arts (1912)

H Parker: The Seven Liberal Arts (1890 – Athens login needed)

Hutchins: The Great Conversation

Selections from Robert Maynard Hutchins

John Henry Newman on ‘The Idea of a University’

Mortimer Adler on Labour, Leisure, and Liberal Education

Mortimer Adler on ‘What is Liberal Education?’

Great Books of the Western World

Otto Willmann (1907) on the seven liberal arts

Dorothy L Sayers: The Lost Tools of Learning (1947)

Andrew Chrucky: The Aim of Liberal Education

Clare Hornsby: Culture and the Western Canon: the Arts Expressing the Thought of Catholic Europe

 

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‘The course is one of the most impressive I have encountered, challenging mechanical models of learning and offering a balanced experience of critical thinking in action. I regard it as being of great current importance in debates about the future and philosophy of [Higher Education] … I have learned a great deal about good teaching and good learning … this course is an immense asset … such a precious and unique thing … The care and encouragement given by teaching staff impresses me greatly’
— Dr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge University, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury

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Why modern?

‘It was Socrates who I would most like to have been in the company of… [There is] a course called “Modern Liberal Arts” at the University of Winchester which is a really Socratic programme of immersion in serious texts with lots of dialogue, lots of interaction. Even at a modern university it’s possible to have a course like that!’ (Rowan Williams, Dec 31st 2019, Interview in The Idler)

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