Education's End Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given up on the Meaning of Life

Name: Education's End Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given up on the Meaning of Life
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ISBN: 9780300143140

ISBN-10: 0300143141

ISBN-13: 9780300143140

Edition: 2008

Authors: Anthony T. Kronman

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The question of what living is for-of what one should care about and why-is the most important question a person can ask. Yet under the influence of the modern research ideal, our colleges and universities have expelled this question from their classrooms, judging it unfit for organized study. In this eloquent and carefully considered book, Tony Kronman explores why this has happened and calls for the restoration of life7;s most important question to an honored place in higher education. The author contrasts an earlier era in American education, when the question of the meaning of life was at the center of instruction, with our own times, when this question has been largely abandoned by…

Book details

List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/23/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.83" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Tony Kronman is Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School. Since stepping down as Dean of the Law School in 2004, he has been teaching in the Directed Studies Program at Yale and devoting himself to the humanities. He lives in New Haven.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



What Is Living For?



Secular Humanism



The Research Ideal



Political Correctness



Spirit in an Age of Science



Yale Directed Studies Program Readings, 2005-2006


Notes


Index