Iris murdoch, liberal education and human flourishing
Evans W.
2009
Journal of Philosophy of Education
10
10.1111/j.1467-9752.2009.00666.x
Articulating the good of liberal education - what we should teach and why we should teach it - is necessary to resist the subversion of liberal education to economic or political ends and the mania for measurable skills. I argue that Iris Murdoch's philosophical writings enrich the work of contemporary Aristotelians, such as Joseph Dunne and Alasdair MacIntyre, on these issues. For Murdoch, studies in the arts and intellectual subjects, by connecting students to the inescapable contingency and finitude of human existence, contribute to the cultivation of intellectual and moral virtues and thus to human flourishing. © 2009 Journal of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.
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