Quest for Excellence
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The essays in this volume reflect on the idea of excellence embedded within core texts, as well as how such texts influence and ennoble higher education. The authors consider rival forms of excellence from ancient Greece and Rome, through modern Europe and America, and beyond.

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The essays in this volume reflect on the idea of excellence embedded within core texts, as well as how such texts influence and ennoble higher education. The authors consider rival forms of excellence from ancient Greece and Rome, through modern Europe and America, and beyond.
Autorenporträt
Dustin Gish is a member of The Honors College Faculty at the University of Houston, where he teaches Great Books seminars and courses in Political Theory. His teaching career spans almost two decades, having previously taught political philosophy, classical studies, and American government courses at The American University of Rome and College of the Holy Cross. His scholarly work has appeared in journal articles, book chapters, and edited volumes on classical and early modern political philosophy - especially the political thought of Xenophon, Plato, Shakespeare, and the American Founding, including, most recently, his co-authored book, Thomas Jefferson and the Science of Republican Government (Cambridge University Press). Chris Constas is Associate Professor of the Practice of the Humanities in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program at Boston College. ? J. Scott Lee is the Executive Director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and Series Editor for the ACTC Annual Proceedings.