Abstract
Unless carried out “liberally,” a historical study of the liberal arts may produce only a record of reutilized ideas and practices and offer little real insights. To avoid these, the present chapter would analyze the liberal arts in close relation to the major intellectual tasks in each historical period. Thus, it will see how the Aristotelian logic provided Medieval students with a sharp scalpel for dissecting feudalism and orthodox Christianity. How did seventeenth century science as the mathematical explication of physical world would try to close the desperate schism of Christendom? How did science, which had been expected to guarantee world peace, meet with a severe defeat in the face of WW I and bring about the revival of the humanities?
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Of 166 selective liberal arts colleges in the 1995 Almanac of Higher Ed. those for which the relevant data were available were sifted out.
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The author would like to sincerely thank Professor Adam R. Nelson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as the editors of the present book, who extended to him invaluable editorial and other help.
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Tachikawa, A. (2016). Development of Liberal Arts Education and Colleges: Historical and Global Perspectives. In: Jung, I., Nishimura, M., Sasao, T. (eds) Liberal Arts Education and Colleges in East Asia. Higher Education in Asia: Quality, Excellence and Governance. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0513-8_2
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