Authentic Cosmopolitanism (Paperback)

R.J. Snell

ISBN 10: 022717416X / ISBN 13: 9780227174166

Published by James Clarke & Co Ltd, Cambridge, 2014

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Paperback. Humans are lovers, and yet a good deal of pedagogical theory, Christian or otherwise, assumes an anthropology at odds with human nature, fixed in a model of humans as "thinking things". Turning to Augustine, or at least Augustine in conversation with Aquinas, Martin Heidegger, the overlooked Jesuit thinker Bernard Lonergan, and the important contemporary Charles Taylor, this book provides a normative vision for Christian higher education. A phenomenological reappropriation of human subjectivity reveals an authentic order to love, even when damaged by sin, and loves, made authentic by grace, allow the intellectually, morally, and religiously converted person to attain an integral unity. Properly understanding the integral relation between love and the fullness of human life overcomes the split between intellectual and moral formation, allowing transformed subjects -authentic lovers - to live, seek, and work towards the values of a certain kind of cosmopolitanism. Christian universities exist to make cosmopolitans, properly understood, namely, those persons capable of living authentically. In other words, this text gives a full-orbed account of human flourishing, rooted in a phenomenological account of the human as basis for the mission of the university. An exploration of the moral and theological underpinings of Christian higher education, in which the mission of the university is seen as developing an authentic mode of living based on love. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Authentic Cosmopolitanism (Paperback)
• Publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 022717416X
• ISBN 13: 9780227174166
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Humans are lovers, and yet a good deal of pedagogical theory, Christian or otherwise, assumes an anthropology at odds with human nature, fixed in a model of humans as “thinking things.” Turning to Augustine, this book provides a normative vision for Christian higher education. A phenomenological reappropriation of human subjectivity reveals an authentic order to love, even when damaged by sin, and loves, made authentic by grace, allow the intellectually, morally, and religiously converted person to attain an integral unity. Properly understanding the integral relation between love and the fullness of human life overcomes the split between intellectual and moral formation, allowing transformed subjects -authentic lovers - to live, seek, and work towards the values of a certain kind of cosmopolitanism. Christian universities exist to make cosmopolitans, properly understood, namely, those persons capable of living authentically. In other words, this text gives a full-orbed account of human flourishing, rooted in a phenomenological account of the human as basis for the mission of the university.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents:
Preface
Thinkers or Lovers: A Brief Introduction
Part One: The Order of Authentic Love and
Intellectual Conversion
1 Noetic Exegesis and the Authentic Intellect
2 Martin Heidegger, Charles Taylor, and the Caring
Person
3 Bernard Lonergan, Intellectual Conversion, and
Authentic Love
Part Two: Educating for Moral and Religious
Conversion
4 Disorder and Revolt: The Effects of Sin
5 The Graciousness of Being-There: Moral and
Religious Conversion
Part Three: Educating for Value: Authentic Humans
and the Order of Love
6 Value Ethics: Forming Moral Agents
7 Cosmopolis: Value, Justice, Authenticity
Conclusion: An Education for Our Time
Bibliography

About the Author

R. J. SNELL is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University, as well as Research Director for the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good.

STEVEN D. CONE is Assistant Professor of Theology and Chair of the Bible/Theology Field in the Undergraduate School at Lincoln Christian University.