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This book argues for a modern version of liberal arts education, exploring first principles within the divine comedy of educational logic. By reforming the three philosophies of metaphysics, nature and ethics upon which liberal arts education is based, Tubbs offers a profound transatlantic philosophical and educational challenge to the subject.

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Introduction 1. Antiquity: Finding Virtue in Necessity 2. The Seven Liberal Arts: Varro´s Secret Path 3. Renaissance Humanism 4. Bildung and the New Age 5. Metaphysical Education 6. Natural Education 7. Social Education 8. Divine Comedy of Barbarian Virtue 9. The Work of Education

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Nigel Tubbs is Programme Leader of the Modern Liberal Arts programme at the University of Winchester, UK. His most recent publications are Education in Hegel and History of Western Philosophy.

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