Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-First Century

by HOWARD GARDNER

2021-01-01 18:39:38

The true, the good, and the beautiful are as timeless a trio of concepts as Western culture has to offer. Since before Socrates,humankind has explored these virtues, but our definitions of them have unceasingly changed over the ages. Every known civi... Read more
The true, the good, and the beautiful are as timeless a trio of concepts as Western culture has to offer. Since before Socrates,
humankind has explored these virtues, but our definitions of them have unceasingly changed over the ages. Every known civilization has developed its own interpretations of them, thus confronting difficult questions: Is truthfulness inherent or inculcated? Is beauty achieved or a gift from the gods? Is goodness a birthright or determined by society? Here Howard Gardner explores the meaning of these virtues in a contemporary world of vast technological change. Less

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File size5.75 X 5.13 X 0.75 in
Publication date April 12, 2011
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780465021925
Howard Gardner is John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Best known as the originator of the Theory of Multiple Intel...

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