“ R ight n o w w e ’re in a voca tiona l tre n d ,” Father T heo d o re H esburgh said last n igh t. “ Many regard educa­ t io n as so m e th ing th a t gets us a job , b u t i f th a t’s all th e re is to it, then educa tio n is a p re tty p o o r buiness.” In h is le c tu re e n tit le d “ T he Value o f a L ibera l E duca tion ,” H esburgh stressed the im p o rta n ce o f lea rn ing to be a ...

BEYOND A N Y DOUBT Peter Steinfels’ investigation of neoconservatism raises more questions than it answers.* Equally beyond dispute, the unanswered questions are the more important and significant for an understanding of the intellectual climate and landscape of a very troubled republic. To see why this is so, as well as to do justice to Steinfels’ efforts (which are not inconsiderable by any m...

L y ° 1***' N o~ 6 8 ____________________________________________________________________________ W ed nesday , January 25, 1978 by Mark Perry Staff Reporter Fr. Jam es T. B urtchaell, a t a sm all gatherin in F isher Hall last n igh t, s ta ted th a t he believes studen ts are p ressu red into study­ ing for certain professions and are th u s losing m any of th e benefits of a liberal educatio...

The Master of Liberal Arts provides the chance to practice the methods of interdisciplinary inquiry that are the hallmark of a rigorous liberal arts education. As a student in the program, one can explore questions of identity through art, literature, and religion; analyze the politics of race in fiction, historical documents, the visual arts, and music; debate ethical choices presented by fict...

Norms have been extensively studied to coordinate multi-agent systems, and the literature has investigated two general approaches to norm synthesis: off-line (synthesising norms at design-time) and on-line (runtime synthesis). On-line synthesis is generally recognised to be appropriate for open systems, where aspects of the system remain unknown at design-time. In this paper we present LION , a...

After the disintegration of former Soviet Union in 1989, debate started among the intellectuals as well as policy makers in USA about the future shape of world politics and role of the US in it. In this regard, early voice was Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History” which focused on political ideologies as the main unit of analysis. To him, after the end of cold war, western liberal democracy h...

Abstract By the middle of eighteenth century word “liberal” had multiple non‐political meanings. Adam Smith famously advances “the liberal plan” political economy. In The Wealth Nations he indicates several ways that his plan is in a sense. leads to economic growth, which rise real wages and population through an extending division labor. facilitates market integration, leading toward distribut...

What are the impacts this pandemic is leaving on politics? In essay, I will argue that Covid-19 – beyond rhetoric of exceptionalism or denialism unveiling some ‘structural’ features Western capitalist-societies one side, pervasiveness digital technologies shaping more and public sphere; other social reproduction as contested terrain between divergent forces. The erosion spaces for decision-maki...