title: Prescribing the Life of the Mind: An Essay on the Purpose of the University, the Aims of Liberal Education, the Competence of Citizens, and the Cultivation of Practical Reason
author:  Charles W. Anderson 
description: "Charles Anderson has provided an excellent new starting point for public discussion of the contemporary university. He asks all the right questions. No university president, provost, or dean should be allowed to hold office until she or he has passed an examination on this book."-Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame -- <i>Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame</i><br /><br />"I like Charles W. Anderson. I like his book. . . . My first inclination, on reading a few pages, was to invite him to dinner and conversations that would, I am certain, run far into the night. Why? In a mere 160 pages Anderson trenchantly probes the present state of 'the university' and then proposes to draw from its own logic and present activity (not from some idealized model) a 'prescription' for the recovery of its health. . . . The university must have principles and standards-principles and standards, he argues, that are really there in its history and operation but which require contemporary rethinking and reapplication."-Henry C. Johnson, Jr., Review of Politics -- <i>Henry C. Johnson, Jr.,<i>Review of Politics</i></i><br /><br />"Political scientist Anderson provides, in this slim volume, a reasoned argument for the liberal arts and for the link between liberal education and what he calls 'practical reason.' He criticizes the modern American university for giving up its time-honored responsibility to provide a thoughtful, coherent, and well-articulated education to undergraduates, and argues that if the university is to prosper, it must return to a variation of its roots and provide a thoughtful liberal education. . . . Students, he asserts, should be taught to think and to reason, and that the university is neither a 'trade school' nor a repository of what is 'currently popular' in intellectual life."-Choice -- <i>Choice</i>
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  The Inquiring Mind: On Intellectual Virtues and 
  Virtue Epistemology
  Jason Baehr
  Print publication date: 2011
  Print ISBN-13: 9780199604074
  Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2011
  DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199604074.001.0001
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