03284nam a22005175i 4500 978-3-031-57077-3 DE-He213 20251030112343.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240630s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031570773 978-3-031-57077-3 10.1007/978-3-031-57077-3 doi H61.15 HPS bicssc PHI034000 bisacsh QDTS thema Smith, Steven G. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 79671 The Meaning of Height in Aspiration, Responsibility, and Higher Education [electronic resource] / by Steven G. Smith. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIII, 226 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Reaching -- Chapter 3. Righting -- Chapter 4. Higher Education -- Chapter 5. “Is This Life?”. The Meaning of Height takes seriously the traditional figure of “higher life” for intrinsically preferable manners of living. Reworking the Platonic model of ascent to the ideal and descent to responsible engagement with the world, The Meaning of Height lays out concrete possible itineraries of reaching (upward to new acquisitions of personal capacity) and righting (downward from prompts for good order), showing connections between individual and social fulfillment. By focusing on our diversely demanding encounters with the interesting, the important, and the transcendent, the book strikes a counterpoint to the commonly homogenized conception of personal “happiness.” It also counters illiberal views of higher education with a Humboldtian vitality argument for a meaningfully “high” higher education geared to full development of human faculties, a level of education to which the disciplines of philosophy and religious studies make essential contributions. The book concludes by considering the essential role of this sort of higher education in democratic societies. Steven G. Smith is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Millsaps College (USA) and author of The Special Liveliness of Hooks in Popular Music and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). . Social sciences Philosophy. 60803 Education Philosophy. 60756 Political science Philosophy. 57588 Social Philosophy. 66963 Philosophy of Education. 70146 Political Philosophy. 66964 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031570766 Printed edition: 9783031570780 Printed edition: 9783031570797 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57077-3 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 61179 61179