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Philosophers on Liberal Arts

Bibliography for Philosophy of Liberal EducationThe History of Higher Education (online readings)

The Future of Liberalism by Timothy Garton Ash

Philosophy and the Liberal Arts by Tid Tidbury

Distorted Rhetoric and Forgotten Principles by Bex Atherton

Robert Pippin: Liberation and the Liberal Arts

Leon Botstein (Bard): on useful humanities

Joseph Epstein: Who Killed the Liberal Arts?

Juha Himanka: University Curriculum—Recent Philosophical Reflections and Practical Implementations, (open access).

Vocation and the Liberal Arts A J Conyer.

Henry S. Harris musing on Plato and Liberal Education

Leo Strauss: Liberal Education and Responsibility

Leo Strauss: What is Liberal Education? (1959)

Andrew Fleming West: The Seven Liberal Arts (1912)

H Parker: The Seven Liberal Arts (1890 – Athens login needed)

Hutchins: The Great Conversation

Selections from Robert Maynard Hutchins

John Henry Newman on ‘The Idea of a University’

Mortimer Adler on Labour, Leisure, and Liberal Education

Mortimer Adler on ‘What is Liberal Education?’

Great Books of the Western World

Otto Willmann (1907) on the seven liberal arts

Dorothy L Sayers: The Lost Tools of Learning (1947)

Andrew Chrucky: The Aim of Liberal Education

Clare Hornsby: Culture and the Western Canon: the Arts Expressing the Thought of Catholic Europe

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