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Tiêu đề

On the American Founders’ Defense of Liberal Education in a Republic

Tác giả

Miller E.F.

Năm xuất bản

1984

Source title

The Review of Politics

Số trích dẫn

DOI

10.1017/S0034670500048762

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Tóm tắt

An important strand of the republican tradition warns that liberal education harms republics by promoting aristocracy, breeding an idle and skeptical class of philosophers and undermining the civic virtues on which republics depend. The American Founding generation, in its writings on education, rejected this warning and maintained instead that the open cultivation and wide dissemination of liberal learning is favorable to republican government, if not essential to its very existence. The aristocratic tendencies of liberal education would by mitigated by the diffusion of knowledge. Philosophy would show its usefulness by increasing man’s power over nature and multiplying the conveniences of life. The republican virtues would be strengthened by the elucidation of their rational ground. These arguments, though perhaps questionable from a theoretical standpoint, provide the model for a speech that will justify liberal education before the citizens of a republic. Yet the reconciliation of liberal education and republicanism requires a second speech —one that justifies republicanism to the friends of liberal education —and here the American writings give little guidance. © 1984, University of Notre Dame. All rights reserved.

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