Oct 29, 2021
Daniel Harrell joins Brendan Boyle to discuss competing defenses of liberal education and the nature of liberal education’s “freedom.” What does it mean to be “freed” by education if we remain “bound” in other ways? How can we be free human beings in the face of our own mortality? What is the relationship between knowledge and experience? How are tools of learning used and abused?
Read or listen to the lecture discussed in this episode: Daniel Harrell, “The Lost Idea of a Liberal Art,” delivered as part of the Graduate Institute summer lecture series in 2015 (pdf, audio).