The quest for excellence : liberal arts, sciences, and core texts : selected proceedings from the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, New Haven, Connecticut, April 14-17, 2011 /

Table of Contents: “…Core Rhetoric: Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural AddressesNietzsche's Question: A Reading of Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism #1; John Dewey's Faith in Progress: An Impediment to Liberal Education; Expanding the Core in the Name of Excellence; The Sand Reckoner: Archimedes' Exploration of Large Numbers; Space, Time, and Place in Newton's Principia and Aristotle's Physics; Darwin's Descent of Man and the Study of Science from a Liberal Arts Perspective; Las Casas's In Defense of the Indians: Can a Just War Be Waged against Barbarians?…”
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Memory, invention, and delivery : transmitting and transforming knowledge and culture in liberal arts education for the future. Selected proceedings from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Memphis, Tennessee, April 17-19, 2009 /

Table of Contents: “…; The Cunning of Tradition; Of the Wings of Atalanta-Meaning and Dualism in DuBois, Morrison, and Historically Black, Liberal Arts Education ; Platonic Forms as a Model of Modern Physics: Confessions of an Experimental Physicist ; Liberal Education and the Liberal Arts; Liberal Education: Transmitting Knowledge through Texts; Why Should Science Majors Waste Their Time on Great Books; Medieval Political Philosophy, Christianity, and the Liberal Arts…”
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Memory, invention, and delivery : transmitting and transforming knowledge and culture in liberal arts education for the future : selected proceedings from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Memphis, Tennessee, April 17-19, 2009 /

Table of Contents: “…Plenary Addresses -- Liberal Education and the Liberal Arts -- Memory and Classical Heritage -- Freedom and Happiness from the Renaissance to Modernity -- Transmitting and Transforming through Core Texts.…”