Title: Who are we? : old, new, and timeless answers from core texts : selected papers from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Plymouth, Massachusetts, April 3-6, 2008 /
Authors: Anderson, Robert D.; Flynn, Molly Brigid.; Lee, J. Scott.; Lee, J. Scott, 1948-; Association for Core Texts and Courses. 2008 :
Publisher: University Press of America,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Universities and colleges Curricula United States Congresses.; Curriculum planning United States Congresses.; Education, Humanistic United States Congresses.; Education, Higher United States Philosophy Congresses.
Abstract: "In this volume, the Association for Core Texts and Courses has gathered essays of literary and philosophical accounts that explain who we are simply as persons. Further, essays are included that highlight the person as entwined with other persons and examine who we are in light of communal ties. The essays reflect both the Western experience of democracy and how community informs who we are more generally. Our historical position in a modern or post-modern, urbanized or disenchanted world is explored by yet other papers. And, finally, ACTC educators model the intellectual life for students and colleagues by showing how to read texts carefully and with sophistication--as an example of who we can be"--Page 4 of cover.