1st Edition
Humanities and Civic Life Volume 32
112 Pages
by
Routledge
112 Pages
by
Routledge
97 Pages
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Routledge
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This volume in Religion and Public Life , a series on religion and public affairs, provides a wide-ranging forum for differing views on religious and ethical considerations. The contributions address the decline of social capital-those patterns of behavior which are conducive to self-governance and the spirit of self-reliance-and its relation to the demise of the civic-humanist tradition in... Read more
Introduction; Rome, Florence, and Philadelphia: Using the History o f the Humanities to Renew Our Civic Life; “The Dark Fields of the Republic ”: The Persistence of Civic Humanism in American Thought; Unleashing the Humanities; Liberal Arts: Listening to Faculty; Historical Consciousness in Antiquity; Taking the Measure o f Relativism and The Civic Virtue o f Rhetoric; The River: A Vichian Dialogue on Humanistic Education
Biography
Paul Edward Gottfried
