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October 1, 2009civil association, hobbes, liberal education, oakeshott

Online Oakeshottiana

Some Oakeshottiana can be found online available for download. Oakeshott’s Introduction to Hobbes Letter on Hobbes A fragment from a Spanish version of the Voice of Liberal Learning Hobbes on Civil Association

March 24, 2009click and clack, emotion, john perry, ken taylor, liberal education, Martha Nussbaum, philosophy talks

Liberal Education – Again

I see that Martha Nussbaum is weighing in on the liberal education debate. The debate, crudely put, asks whether education should be instrumental – i.e. merely training up students to serve an economic imperative – or is there another deeper aspect to education, an intrinsic aspect, that inducts students into the postulates of our and…

March 11, 2009john pugh, liberal education, liverpool, philosophy, stanley fish

Liberal Education Revisited

A couple of months ago I posted a link to Stanley Fish’s NYT article bemoaning the corroding of liberal education. With the news of the closure of Liverpool’s philosophy department here is John Pugh echoing Fish.

January 19, 2009intrinsic vs instrumental, liberal education, michael oakeshott, philosophy of education, stanley fish

Stanley Fish in the New York Times blog invokes Michael Oakeshott in considering the debate between education seen in purely instrumental terms vs. education as having intrinsic value as an introduction into the postulates of our culture. Only the other night I caught a news item where everyone was talking in terms of a university…