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Inside the Liberal Arts
Critical Thinking and Citizenship
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2023
Summary
Inside the Liberal Arts accomplishes two ambitious goals at once, and shows why they are inseparable: It explains the nature and purpose of liberal learning – to produce critical thinkers and well-rounded democratic citizens – and offers a probing, accessible guided tour of critical thinking, emphasizing the analytic skills that form the intellectual core of all higher education. Becoming better critical thinkers doesn’t mean we have to become philosophers. As users of language, Scheuer explains, we’re already philosophers. Advanced critical thinking simply makes us better philosophers – and better learners and citizens. In lucid and often witty prose, Scheuer guides us through the moral and conceptual heart of the liberal education ideal. In an era when colleges and universities are struggling to convey the value of that ideal to students and parents, Inside the Liberal Arts will be a lasting aid to intellectual excellence, and a benchmark for understanding what it means to be an educated citizen.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-6987-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-6989-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
194
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Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
The Liberal Arts Idea No access Pages 1 - 14
The Liberal Arts and Triangular Citizenship No access Pages 15 - 24
Gateways to Critical Inquiry No access Pages 25 - 38
Language Lessons No access Pages 39 - 56
The Range of Rationality No access Pages 57 - 68
Defining Critical Thinking No access Pages 69 - 82
The Spectrum of Critical Thinking No access Pages 83 - 96
Analytic Thinking 101 No access Pages 97 - 108
Analysis and Ambiguity No access Pages 109 - 120
The Uses of Complexity No access Pages 121 - 132
Truth and Consequences No access Pages 133 - 148
The Two Riddles of Causality No access Pages 149 - 164
Morality and the Liberal Arts No access Pages 165 - 180
Democracy and the Liberal Arts No access Pages 181 - 192
