Inside the Liberal Arts
eBook - ePub

Inside the Liberal Arts

Critical Thinking and Citizenship

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eBook - ePub

Inside the Liberal Arts

Critical Thinking and Citizenship

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Preface: Inside the Liberal Arts
  7. Chapter 1: The Liberal Arts Idea
  8. Chapter 2: The Liberal Arts and Triangular Citizenship
  9. Chapter 3: Gateways to Critical Inquiry
  10. Chapter 4: Language Lessons: What We Need to Know About Words to Think Well
  11. Chapter 5: The Range of Rationality
  12. Chapter 6: Defining Critical Thinking
  13. Chapter 7: The Spectrum of Critical Thinking
  14. Chapter 8: Analytic Thinking
  15. Chapter 9: Analysis and Ambiguity
  16. Chapter 10: The Uses of Complexity
  17. Chapter 11: Truth and Consequences
  18. Chapter 12: The Two Riddles of Causality
  19. Chapter 13: Morality and the Liberal Arts
  20. Chapter 14: Democracy and the Liberal Arts
  21. About the Author