03075nam a22004695i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001100172072001600183072002300199072001600222100008500238245012400323250001800447264007900465300003500544336002600579337002600605338003600631347002400667505014000691520129900831650004002130650003402170650004202204650003002246650003602276650003302312710003402345773002602379776003602405776003602441776003602477856004602513912001402559912001502573999001702588978-3-031-57077-3DE-He21320251030112343.0cr nn 008mamaa240630s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315707739978-3-031-57077-37 a10.1007/978-3-031-57077-32doi 4aH61.15 7aHPS2bicssc 7aPHI0340002bisacsh 7aQDTS2thema1 aSmith, Steven G.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut97967114aThe Meaning of Height in Aspiration, Responsibility, and Higher Educationh[electronic resource] /cby Steven G. Smith.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXIII, 226 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Reaching -- Chapter 3. Righting -- Chapter 4. Higher Education -- Chapter 5. “Is This Life?”.  aThe 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). . 0aSocial sciencesxPhilosophy.960803 0aEducationxPhilosophy.960756 0aPolitical sciencexPhilosophy.95758814aSocial Philosophy.96696324aPhilosophy of Education.97014624aPolitical Philosophy.9669642 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303157076608iPrinted edition:z978303157078008iPrinted edition:z978303157079740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57077-3  aZDB-2-REP  aZDB-2-SXPR  c61179d61179