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Author Strauss, What is Liberal Education? Author Michael Oakeshott and what the Ideal of Liberal Education?

author Strauss, What is Liberal Education?
author Michael Oakeshott and what the Ideal of Liberal Education?

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Leo Strauss?

Liberal education is education in culture or toward culture. The finished product of a liberal education is a cultured human being.

Oakeshott:

Oakeshott’s vision of liberal education in a Spinozistic perspective – as a quest,
that is, for enlightenment in the face of illusion – may be suggestive in so far
as it links his educational ideal to the concept of a ‘way’, or path, found in ancient and oriental thought but uncommon in the modern European world.

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THE PLACE OF ENLIGHTENMENT IN MICHAEL OAKESHOTT’S CONCEPTION OF LIBERAL EDUCATION by Noel O'Sullivan