Who Are We? Old, New, and Timeless Answers from Core Texts

Robert Anderson; Molly Brigid Flynn; Scott J. Lee

doi:10.5771/9780761853725

Summary

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.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-5371-8
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-5372-5
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 232
Product type: Edited Book

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Introduction No access
1. Paideia in a Post-Darwinian World: Reconnecting Education and Biology No access
2. The Great "Civilized" Conversation: A Case in Point No access
3. Who We Were, Are, and Will Be, Seen Through a Darwinian Lens No access
4. Georg Simmers "The Metropolis and Mental Life": An Anchor for the First-Year Core No access
5. The Woman in the Dunes as a Core Text: Abe Kobo's Search for a New Modern Identity No access
6. Descartes and the Existentialists: The Continuing Fruitfulness of the Cogito No access
1. Dark Night of Our Souls' Democratic Vistas No access
2. Old Maps, New Worlds: A Case of Culture and Core No access
3. Freedom, Democracy, and Empire: Are We Imperial Athens? No access
4. Boiling Down the People: Democratic Reform in Aristophanes' The Knights No access
5. Tocquevillian Reflections on Liberal Education and Civic Engagement No access
1. Good Cop, Bad Cop: Interrogating Human Nature with Xunzi and Mencius No access
2. Aristotle (versus Kant) on Autonomy and Moral Maturity No access
3. Two Meditations on the Nature of Self No access
4. Montaigne and the Limits of Human Reason No access
5. Othello in Context: Who Are We? Who Do We Think We Are? Who Are They? How Do We Know? No access
6. Dock - Alles, was dazu mich trieb / Gott! war so gut! ach war so lieb: Pleasure and Obligation in Faust No access
1. Who Are We, Whose Are We? Women as God's Agents of Change in the Hebrew Bible No access
2. Who We Are Through Family and Friends No access
3. Rethinking Rites-Music Relations in Confucian Tradition No access
4. Politics, Principles, and Death in Antigone No access
5. Self-Cultivation and the Chinese Epic: Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist Themes in Journey to the West No access
6. The Morality of Makola in Conrad's An Outpost of Progress No access
7. H.G. Wells on Being an Engineer No access
8. Who We Are and the Case for Economics in the Core Curriculum No access
1. Core Texts, Introspection, and the Recovery of the Renaissance Ideal in Twenty-First-Century Higher Education No access
2. Adverbial Play in Plato's Ion No access
3. Remembering Ancient Truths: The Four Roots of Plato's Recollection No access
4. Dante Is from Mars No access
5. Art and Revolution in the Images of Francisco Goya No access
6. Incorporating Eastern Texts into a Western Core: Teaching the Tao Te Ching in Conversation with Wallace Stevens No access