He discusses the idea of a liberating education. He compares the classical sense of the idea of liberating with the contemporary or revisionist notion. In short, the contemporary or revisionist sense of a liberating education is freeing one from social constraints, racism, sexism, religious-repression, etc. The classical idea of the goal of a liberal arts, aka, liberating education is freedom from the worst form of slavery - slavery to our own desires, slavery to ourselves.
June 16, 2012
Lecture: Robert George on Liberal Arts Education
Here is a lecture by Robert George, given at the Alexander Hamilton Institute, titled, "Self Mastery, Liberal Arts Education, and Academic Freedom."
He discusses the idea of a liberating education. He compares the classical sense of the idea of liberating with the contemporary or revisionist notion. In short, the contemporary or revisionist sense of a liberating education is freeing one from social constraints, racism, sexism, religious-repression, etc. The classical idea of the goal of a liberal arts, aka, liberating education is freedom from the worst form of slavery - slavery to our own desires, slavery to ourselves.
He discusses the idea of a liberating education. He compares the classical sense of the idea of liberating with the contemporary or revisionist notion. In short, the contemporary or revisionist sense of a liberating education is freeing one from social constraints, racism, sexism, religious-repression, etc. The classical idea of the goal of a liberal arts, aka, liberating education is freedom from the worst form of slavery - slavery to our own desires, slavery to ourselves.
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