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In October 2018, Samford University hosted Teaching Dante, a conference designed to help non-specialists teach the work of the Florentine poet more effectively in undergraduate core and general education courses. This volume of essays on the Divine Comedy includes a keynote address by Albert Russell Ascoli (UC-Berkeley), as well as a selection of top papers from the conference
Religion & beliefs --- Dante --- Richard Rorty --- ethics --- philosophy --- interdisciplinary --- pedagogy --- Dante Alighieri --- The Divine Comedy --- Homer --- The Odyssey --- Ulysses --- core curriculum --- noumena --- symbolism --- higher education --- core and general education curricula --- literary studies --- interdisciplinarity --- great books programs --- teaching --- virtue --- formation --- understanding --- prayer --- hope --- friendship --- Christian Humanism --- The Christian Intellectual Tradition --- Literature Pedagogy --- Milton --- Spenser --- Purgatorio --- love --- education --- Virgil --- Augustine --- Confessions --- Commedia --- Inferno --- Paradiso --- theology and poetry --- medieval astrology --- Beatrice --- Gospel of Luke --- Emmaus --- figura --- Christ --- Eric Auerbach --- history of theology --- medieval theology --- Divine Comedy --- undergraduate seminar --- great books --- caritas --- Catholicism --- theology --- poetry --- the liberal arts --- Great Books programs
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In October 2018, Samford University hosted Teaching Dante, a conference designed to help non-specialists teach the work of the Florentine poet more effectively in undergraduate core and general education courses. This volume of essays on the Divine Comedy includes a keynote address by Albert Russell Ascoli (UC-Berkeley), as well as a selection of top papers from the conference
Dante --- Richard Rorty --- ethics --- philosophy --- interdisciplinary --- pedagogy --- Dante Alighieri --- The Divine Comedy --- Homer --- The Odyssey --- Ulysses --- core curriculum --- noumena --- symbolism --- higher education --- core and general education curricula --- literary studies --- interdisciplinarity --- great books programs --- teaching --- virtue --- formation --- understanding --- prayer --- hope --- friendship --- Christian Humanism --- The Christian Intellectual Tradition --- Literature Pedagogy --- Milton --- Spenser --- Purgatorio --- love --- education --- Virgil --- Augustine --- Confessions --- Commedia --- Inferno --- Paradiso --- theology and poetry --- medieval astrology --- Beatrice --- Gospel of Luke --- Emmaus --- figura --- Christ --- Eric Auerbach --- history of theology --- medieval theology --- Divine Comedy --- undergraduate seminar --- great books --- caritas --- Catholicism --- theology --- poetry --- the liberal arts --- Great Books programs
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The Knowledge Most Worth Having represents the essence of education at the University of Chicago-faculty and students grappling with key intellectual questions that span the humanities, while still acknowledging the need to acquire a depth of knowledge in one's chosen field. The papers collected here were delivered during an often-heated conference at the university in 1966, and include contributions from such scholars as Northrop Frye, Richard McKeon, and, of course, the dean of the college, Wayne Booth himself. Taken as a whole, they present a passionate defense of liberal education, one that remains highly relevant today.
Education. --- Education, Humanistic. --- education, university of chicago, humanities, academia, wayne booth, richard mckeon, northrop frye, liberal arts, great books, canon formation, aesthetics, plato, gender, feminism, equality, social justice, equity, opportunity, diversity, undergraduates, graduate school, science, critical thinking, knowledge, nonfiction, conference.
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In October 2018, Samford University hosted Teaching Dante, a conference designed to help non-specialists teach the work of the Florentine poet more effectively in undergraduate core and general education courses. This volume of essays on the Divine Comedy includes a keynote address by Albert Russell Ascoli (UC-Berkeley), as well as a selection of top papers from the conference
Religion & beliefs --- Dante --- Richard Rorty --- ethics --- philosophy --- interdisciplinary --- pedagogy --- Dante Alighieri --- The Divine Comedy --- Homer --- The Odyssey --- Ulysses --- core curriculum --- noumena --- symbolism --- higher education --- core and general education curricula --- literary studies --- interdisciplinarity --- great books programs --- teaching --- virtue --- formation --- understanding --- prayer --- hope --- friendship --- Christian Humanism --- The Christian Intellectual Tradition --- Literature Pedagogy --- Milton --- Spenser --- Purgatorio --- love --- education --- Virgil --- Augustine --- Confessions --- Commedia --- Inferno --- Paradiso --- theology and poetry --- medieval astrology --- Beatrice --- Gospel of Luke --- Emmaus --- figura --- Christ --- Eric Auerbach --- history of theology --- medieval theology --- Divine Comedy --- undergraduate seminar --- great books --- caritas --- Catholicism --- theology --- poetry --- the liberal arts --- Great Books programs --- Dante --- Richard Rorty --- ethics --- philosophy --- interdisciplinary --- pedagogy --- Dante Alighieri --- The Divine Comedy --- Homer --- The Odyssey --- Ulysses --- core curriculum --- noumena --- symbolism --- higher education --- core and general education curricula --- literary studies --- interdisciplinarity --- great books programs --- teaching --- virtue --- formation --- understanding --- prayer --- hope --- friendship --- Christian Humanism --- The Christian Intellectual Tradition --- Literature Pedagogy --- Milton --- Spenser --- Purgatorio --- love --- education --- Virgil --- Augustine --- Confessions --- Commedia --- Inferno --- Paradiso --- theology and poetry --- medieval astrology --- Beatrice --- Gospel of Luke --- Emmaus --- figura --- Christ --- Eric Auerbach --- history of theology --- medieval theology --- Divine Comedy --- undergraduate seminar --- great books --- caritas --- Catholicism --- theology --- poetry --- the liberal arts --- Great Books programs
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Leo Strauss and his alleged political influence regarding the Iraq War have in recent years been the subject of significant media attention, including stories in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.Time magazine even called him "one of the most influential men in American politics." With The Truth about Leo Strauss, Michael and Catherine Zuckert challenged the many claims and speculations about this notoriously complex thinker. Now, with Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy, they turn their attention to a searching and more comprehensive interpretation of Strauss's thought as a whole, using the many manifestations of the "problem of political philosophy" as their touchstone. For Strauss, political philosophy presented a "problem" to which there have been a variety of solutions proposed over the course of Western history. Strauss's work, they show, revolved around recovering-and restoring-political philosophy to its original Socratic form. Since positivism and historicism represented two intellectual currents that undermined the possibility of a Socratic political philosophy, the first part of the book is devoted to Strauss's critique of these two positions. Then, the authors explore Strauss's interpretation of the history of philosophy and both ancient and modern canonical political philosophers, including Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Locke. Strauss's often-unconventional readings of these philosophers, they argue, pointed to solutions to the problem of political philosophy. Finally, the authors examine Strauss's thought in the context of the twentieth century, when his chief interlocutors were Schmitt, Husserl, Heidegger, and Nietzsche. The most penetrating and capacious treatment of the political philosophy of this complex and often misunderstood thinker, from his early years to his last works, Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy reveals Strauss's writings as an attempt to show that the distinctive characteristics of ancient and modern thought derive from different modes of solving the problem of political philosophy and reveal why he considered the ancient solution both philosophically and politically superior.
Political science --- Philosophy. --- Strauss, Leo --- Criticism and interpretation. --- iraq war, politics, political science, philosophy, positivism, historicism, locke, machiavelli, aristotle, plato, nietzsche, heidegger, husserl, schmitt, western civilization, modernity, law of nature, weimar, great books, nonfiction, history, lucretius, thucydides, socrates, skepticism, jerusalem, athens, marsilius padua, reason, revelation, al farabi, maimonides.
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"This Special Issue will publish articles based on papers presented at the Teaching the Christian Intellectual Tradition Conference held at Samford October 2-4. The conference theme, “Augustine Across the Curriculum,” explored pedagogical methods for integrating the study of Augustine into undergraduate curriculums, particularly but not exclusively general education and Core Texts programs. The pedagogical focus of the conference will extend to the special issue and will differentiate this issue in the vast field of Augustinian studies." -- Special Issue Information.
Christian saints --- Christian saints. --- Augustine, --- Saints --- Canonization --- Avgustin, --- Augustinus, Aurelius, --- Augustyn, --- Augustin, --- Ughasṭīnūs, --- Agostino, --- Agustí, --- Augoustinos, --- Aurelius Augustinus, --- Augustinus, --- Agustín, --- Aurelio Agostino, --- Episkopos Ippōnos Augoustinos, --- Augoustinos Ipponos, --- Agostinho, --- Ōgostinos, --- Agostino, Aurelio, --- אוגוסטינוס הקדוש --- أغسطينوس، --- 奥古斯丁 --- Augustinus, Aurelius --- Agostinho --- Augustine of Hippo --- Augustine d'Hippone --- Agostino d'Ippona --- Augustin d'Hippone --- Augustinus Hipponensis, sanctus --- Sant'Agostino --- Augustinus van Hippo --- Aurelius Augustinus --- Aurelio Agostino --- 聖アウグスティヌス --- アウグスティヌス --- Augustine --- Core Texts/Great Books programs --- History of Christianity --- pedagogy
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This engaging book chronicles the first classes on the art and industry of cinema and the colorful pioneers who taught, wrote, and advocated on behalf of the new art form. Using extensive archival research, Dana Polan looks at, for example, Columbia University's early classes on Photoplay Composition; lectures at the New School for Social Research by famed movie historian Terry Ramsaye; the film industry's sponsorship of a business course on film at Harvard; and attempts by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create programs of professionalized education at the University of Southern California, Stanford, and elsewhere. Polan examines a wide range of thinkers who engaged with the new art of film, from Marxist Harry Alan Potamkin to sociologist Frederic Thrasher to Great Books advocates Mortimer Adler and Mark Van Doren.
Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Study and teaching --- History and criticism --- Motion picture industry. --- Film industry (Motion pictures) --- Moving-picture industry --- Cultural industries --- Cinéma --- Etude et enseignement --- Motion pictures - Study and teaching - United States. --- academy of motion picture arts and sciences. --- american cinema. --- american film history. --- art of cinema. --- business course on film. --- cinema. --- film industry. --- film studies. --- film. --- frederic thrasher. --- great books advocates. --- harry alan potamkin. --- historical. --- history of film studies. --- mark van doren. --- marxism. --- mortimer adler. --- movie studies. --- movies. --- new school for social research. --- photoplay composition. --- retrospective. --- sociology. --- terry ramsaye. --- united states of america.
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A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever writtenEuclid's Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainheads of mathematics—and of culture. Written around 300 BCE, it has traveled widely across the centuries, generating countless new ideas and inspiring such figures as Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell, Abraham Lincoln, and Albert Einstein. Encounters with Euclid tells the story of this incomparable mathematical masterpiece, taking readers from its origins in the ancient world to its lasting influence today.In this lively and informative book, Benjamin Wardhaugh explains how Euclid’s text journeyed from antiquity to the Renaissance, introducing some of the many readers, copyists, and editors who left their mark on the Elements before handing it on. He shows how some read the book as a work of philosophy, while others viewed it as a practical guide to life. He examines the many different contexts in which Euclid's book and his geometry were put to use, from the Neoplatonic school at Athens and the workshops of Restoration London to the Jesuit mission in China and the artisans' studios of medieval Baghdad. Wardhaugh shows how the Elements inspired ideas in theology, art, and music, and how the book has acquired new relevance to the strange geometries of dark matter and curved space.Encounters with Euclid traces the life and afterlives of one of the most remarkable works of mathematics ever written, revealing its continuing role in the timeless search for order and reason in an unruly world.
Geometry. --- Mathematics. --- Math --- Science --- Mathematics --- Euclid's Elements --- Euclid. --- Euclides. --- Alfred North Whitehead. --- Baruch Spinoza. --- Bodleian Library. --- Copernicus. --- Edna St. Vincent Millay. --- Euclidean geometry. --- Galileo Galilei. --- Galileo. --- Hobbes. --- Johannes Kepler. --- Kepler. --- Platonic solids. --- Proclus. --- Ptolemaic Egypt. --- Pythagorean theorem. --- Spinoza. --- Thales' theorem. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- Vatican Library. --- book history. --- geometric algebra. --- golden ratio. --- great books. --- history of math. --- history of mathematics. --- history of the book. --- lemma. --- logic. --- mathematical proofs. --- music theory. --- parallel postulate. --- perspective. --- plane geometry. --- prime numbers. --- Elements (Euclid) --- Elementa (Euclides) --- Eukleidou stoicheia (Euclid) --- Stoicheia (Euclid) --- Elementa (Euclid)
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