Liberal arts and distance education: Can socratic virtue {aretē) and Confucius' exemplary person (junzi) be taught online?

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 117-137

  Ess, Charles ^a  

^a DRURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confucius; Cosmopolitans; Liberal arts; Online learning; Socrates; Virtue ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 20044382261     PISSN: 14740222     EISSN: 1741265X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474022203002002002     Document Type: Article

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