Jeffrey Scheuer

Inside the Liberal Arts (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Thinking and Citizenship

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475869897
• Artikelnr.: 68206896

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey S. Scheuer is the author of two previous books on media and politics, The Sound Bite Society: How Television Helps the Right and Hurts the Left (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999; Routledge, 2001), a Choice "Outstanding Academic Title," and The Big Picture: Why Democracies Need Journalistic Excellence (Routledge, 2007). He lives in New York City and West Tisbury, Mass.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: THE LIBERAL ARTS IDEA
Chapter 2: THE LIBERAL ARTS AND TRIANGULAR CITIZENSHIP
Chapter 3: THE LIBERAL ARTS AS CRITICAL INQUIRY
Chapter 4: LANGUAGE LESSONS
Chapter 5: THE RANGE OF RATIONALITY
Chapter 6: DEFINING CRITICAL THINKING
Chapter 7: THE SPECTRUM OF CRITICAL THINKING
Chapter 8: ANALYSIS 101
Chapter 9: ANALYSIS AND AMBIGUITY
Chapter 10: THE USES OF COMPLEXITY
Chapter 11: TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES
Chapter 12: THE RIDDLE OF CAUSALITY
Chapter 13: MORALITY AND THE LIBERAL ARTS
Chapter 14: DEMOCRACY AND THE LIBERAL ARTS