Who Are We? Old, New, and Timeless Answers from Core Texts

Download or read book Who Are We? Old, New, and Timeless Answers from Core Texts written by Association for Core Texts and Courses. Conference and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the Association for Core Texts and Courses has gathered essays of literary and philosophical accounts that explain who we are simply as persons. Further, essays are included that highlight the person as entwined with other persons and examine who we are in light of communal ties. The essays reflect both the Western experience of democracy and how community informs who we are more generally. Our historical position in a modern or post-modern, urbanized or disenchanted world is explored by yet other papers. And, finally, ACTC educators model the intellectual life for students and colleagues by showing how to read texts carefully and with sophistication —- as an example of who we can be.