Sentences with phrase «modern liberal ideal»

In all these ways it expressed a modern liberal ideal that contrasted with the hierarchical domination and exclusiveness of most of the human past.

Not exact matches

D. Kagan, modern liberal democracies have abandoned that ideals (i agree with his assessment,) choosing to take men «as they are».

If modern liberal education is to provide for the nurture of free men, it must regain the ideal of generality which characterized the traditional liberal arts, but it must do so without sacrificing the variety and scope made possible by modern advances in knowledge.

In this respect ideal modern liberal education agrees with the allegedly useless classical education.

To assert that modern education should be infused with the ideals of recreation is to affirm the centrality of liberal studies in the curriculum.

But Ober is more interested in confronting modern liberal and post-liberal «democracy» with the genuine ancient ideal, the Athenian «people power» of the fifth and fourth centuries b.c., on which he has had so many original and persuasive things to say since publishing Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens in 1989.