Philosophy of Liberal Education for Democracy in the Twenty-first Century

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Willard F. Enteman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Education ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
First Century ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Basic Purpose ◽  
Education For Democracy ◽  
Twenty First Century

Current debates about liberal education have distracted us from responding intelligently to the growth and dominance of professional preparation programs. In 1828, the Yale faculty, confronted with similar circumstances, developed what may be the last widely influential philosophy of liberal education. It gives us a starting point, as does Plato's Republic. Democracy and the knowledge-based economy require us to articulate a new philosophy of liberal education. Using Kantian terminology, I argue that, whereas the basic purpose of professional preparation is to produce heteronomous behavior, the purpose of liberal education should be the development of autonomous individuals.

Sub-Saharan African Universities' Adult and Continuing Education and the Challenge of Relevance in the Knowledge-Based Economy of the Twenty-First Century

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akpovire Oduaran
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Hiv And Aids ◽  
First Century ◽  
Adult And Continuing Education ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Education Needs ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Adult And Continuing

Beyond the dogged expectations that Sub-Saharan African universities' adult and continuing education needs to play a more visible key role in dealing with the challenges of HIV and AIDS, environmental pollution and excruciating poverty, the twenty-first century has brought in at its heels debates surrounding relevance in the era of an upsurge in the cultivation of the knowledge-based economies. As other professional areas of development are seemingly becoming more attractive to the main target populations for the study of and specialisations in adult and continuing education, the time is appropriate for us to explore how we may streamline our provision and make them more responsive to the challenges of our time, thereby moving out of the traditional existence on the periphery. This paper explores how Sub-Saharan universities' adult and continuing education departments could revamp their programmes such that they can adequately assist the region in creating learning societies required for entry into the knowledge-based economies of the twenty-first century.

Locating China in the Twenty-First-Century Knowledge-Based Economy

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (73) ◽  
pp. 113-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent H. Shie ◽  
Craig D. Meer ◽  
Nian-Feng Shin
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Twenty First Century

scholarly journals Distraction Machines? Augmentation, Automation and Attention in a Computational Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 98 (98) ◽  
pp. 85-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Beatrice Fazi
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
First Century ◽  
Attention Deficits ◽  
Cognitive Agents ◽  
Cognitive Capacities ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Computing Machines

It is often argued (and feared) that the human capacity to pay attention is being transformed by computational technologies. Are computing machines distraction machines? This article takes this question as its starting point in order to address concerns about attention deficits visà-vis questions and issues about the mechanisation of cognitive procedures. I will claim that, when approaching the attention ecology of the twenty-first century, it is necessary to differentiate between augmentation and automation. While augmentation implies the extension of predefined forms or modes of behaviour, contemporary developments in computational automation ask us instead to consider the possibility of moving beyond phenomenological analogies. The article will thus discuss how transformations in the capacity to pay attention in a computational age need to be analysed in relation to the emergence of quasi-autonomous artificial cognitive agents driven by AI technologies, such as those known as machine learning. I will argue that these artificial cognitive agents can no longer be described in terms of technological add-ons to pre-existing human cognitive capacities. Today, we think alongside machines that are, is a sense, already thinking. Similarly, we pay attention alongside machines that are, in a sense, already paying attention. The challenge for philosophy and cultural theory is that of moving beyond 'projectionist' conceptions of such technological agency. This challenge, however, also involves overcoming the anthropomorphism that is implicit in expression such as 'thinking machines'. In a century where robot-to-robot communications have outpaced and outnumbered human-machine interactions, these artificial cognitive agents are not just reframing the human capacity to pay attention: they are also re-structuring the conditions for such capacity. Addressing the conditions for attention beyond augmentation and vis-à-vis computational automation involves considering the role and scope of both human and algorithmic decisionmaking, and engaging with the ways in which the humanities can intervene upon contemporary complex cognitive scenarios.

Prolegomena to the Study of the Jewish Magical Tradition

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon Bohak
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
First Century ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Jewish Society ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Trace Processes ◽  
Twenty First Century

Recent years have seen a steady rise in the scholarly interest in Jewish magic. The present paper seeks to take stock of what has already been done, to explain how further study of Jewish magical texts and artifacts might make major contributions to the study of Judaism as a whole, and to provide a blueprint for further progress in this field. Its main claim is that the number of unedited and even uncharted primary sources for the study of Jewish magic is staggering, and that these sources must serve as the starting point for any serious study of the Jewish magical tradition from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Such a study must both compare the Jewish magical texts and practices of each historical period with those of the contemporaneous non-Jewish world, and thus trace processes of cross-cultural contacts and influences, and compare the Jewish magical texts and practices of one period with those of another, so as to detect processes of inner-Jewish continuity and transmission. Finally, such a study must flesh out the place of magical practices and practitioners within the Jewish society of different periods, and within different Jewish communities.

FATAL CONFLICT REFLECTIONS IN MARTIN MCDONAGH'S THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (15) ◽  
pp. 198-208
Author(s):  
Ajda BAŞTAN
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
First Century ◽  
Single Woman ◽  
Physical Location ◽  
Irish Family ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Mother And Daughter ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Taking Care

This study focuses on the reasons of mother-daughter conflicts in Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane. As the twenty-first century was approaching, a new movement of young playwrights emerged on the UK theatre scene. One of the most controversial and beloved representatives of this wave is Martin McDonagh. The author was born and raised in London as the son of an Irish family. In 1996, McDonagh's first play The Beauty Queen of Leenane was staged in Ireland, and then found its place in London and New York, fascinating much attention. Also staged in Turkey, this play of four characters has become the starting point of McDonagh's extraordinary theatrical career. In the play, Maureen, a forty-year-old single woman, still lives with her domineering mother Mag. For years, Maureen has spent her time by cooking, feeding the chickens, and shopping while taking care of her ailing and grumpy mother on her own. In The Beauty Queen of Leenane Maureen and Mag live an isolated life due to their physical location and relationships with each other. Maureen dreams of escaping her mother's house and her town called Leenane. She blames her mother and sisters for her miserable situation. The harsh, rude and hurtful conversations between mother and daughter always continue with conflict. As the play progresses it becomes obvious that this relationship between the two characters is completely disintegrated.

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