The Meaning of Height in Aspiration, Responsibility, and Higher Education

by Steven G. Smith

​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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031570782
• ISBN13: 9783031570780
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"