Episode 193: The Theory and Practice of Liberal Education (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Continuing with Pano Kanelos on articles on liberal education by Jacob Klein, Sidney Hook, and Martha Nussbaum.
What's the practical application of a liberal education? Is it really liberating or indoctrinating? We continue discussion of the Great Books model.
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End song: "Preservation Hill" by The Bevis Frond; Mark interviewed Nick Saloman on Nakedly Examined Music #75.
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| 0:46.9 | Hey, this is the Partially Examined Life Episode 193 Part 2. |
| 0:50.6 | We have Pano Canelos, the president of St. John's College with us. |
| 0:55.0 | We are talking about articles by Jacob Klein, previous 1960s, |
| 0:59.2 | Dean of St. John's College, plus some of our articles. |
| 1:03.0 | We should talk more about this idea, a client put forward that Bloom had also expressed. |
| 1:07.5 | What makes an education liberal is that it's pursued essentially without a practical, |
| 1:13.1 | ulterior motive, that it's knowledge for knowledge sake. |
| 1:16.6 | And this seems to be something that not only many people outside of academia would just say |
| 1:22.2 | that's actually the cancer at the heart of philosophy specifically and this sort of snobbyness. |
| 1:29.0 | Most people are not in the situation economically or otherwise, |
| 1:32.7 | where they'd ever be able to do that to say that to really be a full human being, |
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