Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education Vanessa Miller Most important of all

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Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education Vanessa Miller Most important of allHow can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such citizens of the world in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross cultural studies. Her vigorous defense of the new education is rooted in Seneca's ideal of the citizen who scrutinizes