Woman and Liberal Revolution

liberal's explanation of the "islamic revolution" and its critique

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Liberal Equality and Ethics *

Liberal Arts and Medicine The Liberal Arts and Medicine: How the Liberal Arts Tradition Can Impact Health Care Reform

Unreason and the liberal tradition

It is conventionally thought impermissible to force treatment on a patient, even when his life is at stake. Following Kant or Mill, we may defend this convention either by appealing to the inviolability of autonomy, or to the benefits of treating liberty as inviolable, subject only to considerations of harm to others. In both cases, an exception might be made for mental illness. For Kant, auton...

Neuroscience and the Liberal Arts

Astonishingly, almost 25 years after the publication of “A Nation at Risk,” the clarion call for a radical overhaul of America’s education system, our Nation continues to find its students performing poorly on international exams in mathematics and sciences. In the spring of 2007, the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21 Century published the mos...