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- Genre: Masters Thesis
- Creators: Carrese, Paul
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Alasdair MacIntyre’s three-stage framework for the concept of virtue is used to assess the Mary College at Arizona State University program. Mary College at Arizona State University is a partnership between the University of Mary and Arizona State University, universities with conflicting views of practice of education, narrative of self, and hermeneutic of moral tradition. Members of Mary College at Arizona State University achieve the internal good of initiation and engagement into these conflicting views. The Mary College partnership has the potency to reignite the historically extended, socially embodied argument about the purpose of a university education between rival institutions of higher education and thereby revive the decaying social significance of the university.
ContributorsHofer, Jonathon (Author) / Doody, Jack (Thesis advisor) / Sheehan, Colleen (Thesis advisor) / Carrese, Paul (Committee member) / Seagrave, Adam (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2023
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Political and educational institutions inevitably shape one another. When the telos, the end for the sake of which a thing exists, of either is incompatible with the other, tension inevitably mounts. One of the significant sources of friction which prevents both governmental institutions and educational institutions from effectively functioning is the way in which their teloi are at odds. The political philosophy which shaped the United States comes in no small part from John Locke, but the country could not and should not attempt to implement his educational theories. I argue that attempts to do so are disastrous, and that it would ultimately be better to have pedagogical truths shape political mechanisms. I end by offering a detailed examination of two ancient sources for better educational approaches, both found in the Socratic dialogues of Plato.
ContributorsLasser, Jesse Alfred (Author) / Doody, John (Thesis advisor) / Wright, Johnson (Thesis advisor) / Carrese, Paul (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022