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Callicles' challenge
- Source :
- Critical Quarterly. Spring-Summer, 2005, Vol. 47 Issue 1-2, 40-52
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- The author addresses the pressures universities face in justifying learning for its intrinsic value rather than economic or vocational value, based on the challenge Callicles made to Socrates to prove that devotion to the mind is worthy of a person with high aspirations.
- Subjects :
- Learning -- Psychological aspects
Learning -- Social aspects
Learning -- Evaluation
Values -- Psychological aspects
Values -- Social aspects
Values -- Comparative analysis
Education, Higher -- Psychological aspects
Education, Higher -- Social aspects
Education, Higher -- Evaluation
News, opinion and commentary
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00111562
- Volume :
- 47
- Issue :
- 1-2
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Critical Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.134574496