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This is the partially examined life.

Philosophy podcast by some guys who once thought about doing philosophy for a living, but

then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 193 is, what is liberal education?

And we read a couple of essays by Jacob Klein, the idea of liberal education from 1960,

on liberal education from 1965.

We read a critical appraisal of the St. John's College curriculum by Sydney Hook from 1944,

an undemocratic vistas by Martha Nussbaum from 1987.

We're joined today in our conversation by Conno Canellus, president of St. John's College

in Annapolis.

I am Dylan Casey in Annapolis, Maryland.

This is Mark Linton Meyer being trained as a gentleman in Madison, Wisconsin.

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