Truth, beauty, and goodness reframed: educating for the virtues in the twenty-first century 9780465023370, 9780465021925, 0465021921, 0465023371

The virtues and the challenges -- Truth -- Beauty -- Goodness -- A promising start -- Learning throughout life -- Lookin

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Truth, beauty, and goodness reframed: educating for the virtues in the twenty-first century
9780465023370, 9780465021925, 0465021921, 0465023371

Table of contents :
The virtues and the challenges --
Truth --
Beauty --
Goodness --
A promising start --
Learning throughout life --
Looking ahead.

C. S. Lewis said that Christianity works on us like every other myth, except it is a myth that really happened. Dwight L

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The basic theories of physics have remained largely unchanged for nearly a century, contrary to the bombastic assertions

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A modern reader studying biblical narratives encounters various literary approaches and ways of understanding interpreti

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"What a splendid book! Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive. . . . Ch

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"What a splendid book! Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive. . . . Ch

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This volume considers the Aristotelian virtue-ethics tradition as it develops in the writings of Thomas Aquinas. Part On

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In this sweeping book, applied mathematician and popular author David Orrell questions the promises and pitfalls of asso

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A history of the heroic and sometimes abortive efforts to provide education for farmers and tradespeople in Victorian ce

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He has been regarded with suspicion by some, as an anti-postmodernist who dared to write about unfashionable concepts su

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Theodor Adorno is one of the most provocative and important, but least understood of contemporary thinkers. Yet despite

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