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A Metaphysics for the Liberal Arts: Process, Quality, and Continuity

A Metaphysics for the Liberal Arts: Process, Quality, and Continuity

Hardcover

Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Educati

General Education

ISBN10: 1032623985
ISBN13: 9781032623986
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 28 2026
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book explores the relationship between metaphysics and the liberal arts.

Part I contrasts the dualistic metaphysics of Platonism, Cartesianism, and materialisms, with the process metaphysics of William James, John Dewey, C.S. Peirce, and A.N. Whitehead with an eye toward illustrating how education should be treated as a transactive and interactive process whose objects of knowledge evolve through time. In Part II, the authors go on to investigate conceptions of the value of a liberal arts education, considering reactionary, conservative, pragmatist, and radical approaches.. Finally, in Part III, the authors explore connections between metaphysics and conservative, radical, and pragmatist conceptions of art, and demonstrate how process metaphysics can be extended to highlight the role of aesthetic experience both in understanding and appreciating art and in liberal arts education.

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