Amy and Leon Kass on Liberal Education and Citizenship

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🗓️ 30 June 2014

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Leon Kass and Amy Kass were for many years teachers at the University of Chicago. There, they taught great books, political philosophy, the Hebrew bible, literature, and many other subjects as part of the university's then-commitment to a comprehensive education. This conversation focuses on the experience of teaching as well as considers themes such as love, friendship, and courtship in contemporary America.

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0:00.0	I'm Bill Crystal. It's a great pleasure to be joined today by Leon and Amy Cass.
0:20.0	Welcome.
0:22.0	Thank you.
0:23.0	Let's begin at the beginning.
0:24.0	You both went to the University of Chicago and I think you both showed up there in the 50s and you
0:27.7	both talked about how this was an important formative experience for you.
0:31.5	So I'm curious, as someone who didn't go to the University of Chicago
0:34.6	and has been of course wounded and damaged ever since.
0:37.4	Absolutely.
0:38.4	How did this, what was that like?
0:41.6	What's that?
0:43.0	How did it leave it's mark?
0:44.0	Yeah, how did it leave it?
0:45.0	You ended up going back there and teaching there for
0:47.0	as very distinguished professors and there for many decades.
0:50.0	So talk a little bit about viewers of Chicago.
0:52.0	I'm a years of Chicago.
0:52.8	I'm a native of Chicago.
0:54.0	I went to the college of the University of Chicago
0:57.0	as an early entrant after two years of high school,
1:00.4	age 15, not to be recommended necessary.
1:04.0	Is that right?
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