Rethinking Liberal Education

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Narrative imagination is an essential preparation for moral interaction. Habits of empathy and conjecture conduce to a certain type of citizenship and a certain form of community: one that cultivates a sympathetic responsiveness to another’s needs, and understands the way circumstances shape those needs, while respecting separateness and privacy.

Martha Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity

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Does Wisdom Lean Left?

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Wisdom does not “lean left” so much as “lean liberal.”  If wisdom has a party, it is the party of philosophical liberalism and its historic fellow traveler, liberal education.  

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