Dustin Gish is a member of The Honors College Faculty at the University of Houston, where he teaches Great Books seminars and courses in Political Theory. His teaching career spans almost two decades, having previously taught political philosophy, classical studies, and American government courses at The American University of Rome and College of the Holy Cross. His scholarly work has appeared in journal articles, book chapters, and edited volumes on classical and early modern political philosophy – especially the political thought of Xenophon, Plato, Shakespeare, and the American Founding, including, most recently, his co-authored book, Thomas Jefferson and the Science of Republican Government (Cambridge University Press).Chris Constas is Associate Professor of the Practice of the Humanities in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program at Boston College. ?J. Scott Lee is the Executive Director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and Series Editor for the ACTC Annual Proceedings.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionDustin Gish and Christopher ConstasThe Idea of Excellence in Higher EducationThe Rough Magic of Liberal Arts Education: Shakespeare’s The TempestDavid Southward Friendship and Excellence: Bringing out the Best within UsCarrie-Ann Biondi Socratic Perplexity and Communal Arete: Turning with Socrates to the Wisdom of the GenerationsSusan O. Bachman and James V. Bachman Teaching the Truth of Tragedy: Euripides’ BacchaeJames M. Kee Classical Liberal Learning and the Integrative Habit of MindDominic A. Aquila Excellence through the Ages (and the Canon)The Mast and the Cosmos: The Roman Origins of the Liberal Arts Tradition in Cicero’s Dream of ScipioRobert E. Proctor Excellence Redefined: Cicero and the Heroic EthicsWilliam Stull Excellence and the Arthurian Ideal in Tennyson’s Idylls of the KingCharlotte EnglandA Claim for the Less Than Excellent Life: Shakespeare’s The Merchant of VeniceSamuel AjzenstatDescartes and the Great Books: Homelessness as ExcellenceSamuel A. StonerFaustian Striving, the Quest for Excellence, and the Search for MeaningErik LiddellPlato’s Apology of Socrates and King’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail”: Excellence in Civic EngagementDavid FaldetCore Texts on Excellence and EducationAncientsResisting the Dissolution of the Body Politic in Euripides’ Bacchae: A Corporeal Condition for the Pursuit of ExcellenceDustin Gish The Divided Soul in Platonic and Aristotelian PhilosophyLorraine PangleModeration and the Best Life: The Education of Glaucon in Plato’s RepublicAlan Pichanick Love of Wisdom or Wisdom of Love as a Pursuit of Excellence in Plato’s SymposiumAmy S. Bush The Love of Beauty and the Pursuit of Excellence: What Plato’s Phaedrus Teaches about TeachingMargaret I. Hughes ModernsA Sound Mind in a Sound Body: John Locke on EducationTrevor Shelley Both Man and Citizen: Introducing Rousseau’s EmileJoshua A. Shmikler Forced to Be Free? Rousseau’s Social ContractJon RickCore Rhetoric: Lincoln’s First and Second Inaugural AddressesLeslie G. Rubin Nietzsche’s Question: A Reading of Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism #1Matthew K. DavisJohn Dewey’s Faith in Progress: An Impediment to Liberal EducationLuigi Bradizza Expanding the Core in the Name of ExcellenceThe Sand Reckoner: Archimedes’ Exploration of LargeNumbersSamuel R. Kaplan Space, Time, and Place in Newton’s Principia and Aristotle’s PhysicsBrian SchwartzDarwin’s Descent of Man and the Study of Science from a Liberal Arts PerspectiveDaniel J. McKaughanLas Casas’s In Defense of the Indians: Can a Just War Be Waged against Barbarians?Peter DiamondConnecting the Good and the Beautiful in Plato and Aldo LeopoldCraig CondellaInculturation and Global Core Curricula: Primer for Youth (Tongmong sonsup ????) as a Korean Core TextJames Jinhong Kim Religious Difference and Multiculturalism in the Liberal Arts: Reading Eboo Patel Reading Core Texts and CoursesWilson C. Chen Plenary Addresses on Excellence in EducationAfter the Fall: An Historical Reappraisal of Liberal Education (Everything Has to Change, If Things Are to Stay the Same)John Dowling Age of Freedom—Education for Freedom: How Can Kant Speak to Us Today?G. Felicitas Munzel

Dustin Gish is a member of The Honors College Faculty at the University of Houston, where he teaches Great Books seminars and courses in Political Theory. His teaching career spans almost two decades, having previously taught political philosophy, classical studies, and American government courses at The American University of Rome and College of the Holy Cross. His scholarly work has appeared in journal articles, book chapters, and edited volumes on classical and early modern political philosophy – especially the political thought of Xenophon, Plato, Shakespeare, and the American Founding, including, most recently, his co-authored book, Thomas Jefferson and the Science of Republican Government (Cambridge University Press).Chris Constas is Associate Professor of the Practice of the Humanities in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program at Boston College. ?J. Scott Lee is the Executive Director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and Series Editor for the ACTC Annual Proceedings.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionDustin Gish and Christopher ConstasThe Idea of Excellence in Higher EducationThe Rough Magic of Liberal Arts Education: Shakespeare’s The TempestDavid Southward Friendship and Excellence: Bringing out the Best within UsCarrie-Ann Biondi Socratic Perplexity and Communal Arete: Turning with Socrates to the Wisdom of the GenerationsSusan O. Bachman and James V. Bachman Teaching the Truth of Tragedy: Euripides’ BacchaeJames M. Kee Classical Liberal Learning and the Integrative Habit of MindDominic A. Aquila Excellence through the Ages (and the Canon)The Mast and the Cosmos: The Roman Origins of the Liberal Arts Tradition in Cicero’s Dream of ScipioRobert E. Proctor Excellence Redefined: Cicero and the Heroic EthicsWilliam Stull Excellence and the Arthurian Ideal in Tennyson’s Idylls of the KingCharlotte EnglandA Claim for the Less Than Excellent Life: Shakespeare’s The Merchant of VeniceSamuel AjzenstatDescartes and the Great Books: Homelessness as ExcellenceSamuel A. StonerFaustian Striving, the Quest for Excellence, and the Search for MeaningErik LiddellPlato’s Apology of Socrates and King’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail”: Excellence in Civic EngagementDavid FaldetCore Texts on Excellence and EducationAncientsResisting the Dissolution of the Body Politic in Euripides’ Bacchae: A Corporeal Condition for the Pursuit of ExcellenceDustin Gish The Divided Soul in Platonic and Aristotelian PhilosophyLorraine PangleModeration and the Best Life: The Education of Glaucon in Plato’s RepublicAlan Pichanick Love of Wisdom or Wisdom of Love as a Pursuit of Excellence in Plato’s SymposiumAmy S. Bush The Love of Beauty and the Pursuit of Excellence: What Plato’s Phaedrus Teaches about TeachingMargaret I. Hughes ModernsA Sound Mind in a Sound Body: John Locke on EducationTrevor Shelley Both Man and Citizen: Introducing Rousseau’s EmileJoshua A. Shmikler Forced to Be Free? Rousseau’s Social ContractJon RickCore Rhetoric: Lincoln’s First and Second Inaugural AddressesLeslie G. Rubin Nietzsche’s Question: A Reading of Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism #1Matthew K. DavisJohn Dewey’s Faith in Progress: An Impediment to Liberal EducationLuigi Bradizza Expanding the Core in the Name of ExcellenceThe Sand Reckoner: Archimedes’ Exploration of LargeNumbersSamuel R. Kaplan Space, Time, and Place in Newton’s Principia and Aristotle’s PhysicsBrian SchwartzDarwin’s Descent of Man and the Study of Science from a Liberal Arts PerspectiveDaniel J. McKaughanLas Casas’s In Defense of the Indians: Can a Just War Be Waged against Barbarians?Peter DiamondConnecting the Good and the Beautiful in Plato and Aldo LeopoldCraig CondellaInculturation and Global Core Curricula: Primer for Youth (Tongmong sonsup ????) as a Korean Core TextJames Jinhong Kim Religious Difference and Multiculturalism in the Liberal Arts: Reading Eboo Patel Reading Core Texts and CoursesWilson C. Chen Plenary Addresses on Excellence in EducationAfter the Fall: An Historical Reappraisal of Liberal Education (Everything Has to Change, If Things Are to Stay the Same)John Dowling Age of Freedom—Education for Freedom: How Can Kant Speak to Us Today?G. Felicitas Munzel

Dustin Gish is a member of The Honors College Faculty at the University of Houston, where he teaches Great Books seminars and courses in Political Theory. His teaching career spans almost two decades, having previously taught political philosophy, classical studies, and American government courses at The American University of Rome and College of the Holy Cross. His scholarly work has appeared in journal articles, book chapters, and edited volumes on classical and early modern political philosophy – especially the political thought of Xenophon, Plato, Shakespeare, and the American Founding, including, most recently, his co-authored book, Thomas Jefferson and the Science of Republican Government (Cambridge University Press).Chris Constas is Associate Professor of the Practice of the Humanities in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program at Boston College. ?J. Scott Lee is the Executive Director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and Series Editor for the ACTC Annual Proceedings.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionDustin Gish and Christopher ConstasThe Idea of Excellence in Higher EducationThe Rough Magic of Liberal Arts Education: Shakespeare’s The TempestDavid Southward Friendship and Excellence: Bringing out the Best within UsCarrie-Ann Biondi Socratic Perplexity and Communal Arete: Turning with Socrates to the Wisdom of the GenerationsSusan O. Bachman and James V. Bachman Teaching the Truth of Tragedy: Euripides’ BacchaeJames M. Kee Classical Liberal Learning and the Integrative Habit of MindDominic A. Aquila Excellence through the Ages (and the Canon)The Mast and the Cosmos: The Roman Origins of the Liberal Arts Tradition in Cicero’s Dream of ScipioRobert E. Proctor Excellence Redefined: Cicero and the Heroic EthicsWilliam Stull Excellence and the Arthurian Ideal in Tennyson’s Idylls of the KingCharlotte EnglandA Claim for the Less Than Excellent Life: Shakespeare’s The Merchant of VeniceSamuel AjzenstatDescartes and the Great Books: Homelessness as ExcellenceSamuel A. StonerFaustian Striving, the Quest for Excellence, and the Search for MeaningErik LiddellPlato’s Apology of Socrates and King’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail”: Excellence in Civic EngagementDavid FaldetCore Texts on Excellence and EducationAncientsResisting the Dissolution of the Body Politic in Euripides’ Bacchae: A Corporeal Condition for the Pursuit of ExcellenceDustin Gish The Divided Soul in Platonic and Aristotelian PhilosophyLorraine PangleModeration and the Best Life: The Education of Glaucon in Plato’s RepublicAlan Pichanick Love of Wisdom or Wisdom of Love as a Pursuit of Excellence in Plato’s SymposiumAmy S. Bush The Love of Beauty and the Pursuit of Excellence: What Plato’s Phaedrus Teaches about TeachingMargaret I. Hughes ModernsA Sound Mind in a Sound Body: John Locke on EducationTrevor Shelley Both Man and Citizen: Introducing Rousseau’s EmileJoshua A. Shmikler Forced to Be Free? Rousseau’s Social ContractJon RickCore Rhetoric: Lincoln’s First and Second Inaugural AddressesLeslie G. Rubin Nietzsche’s Question: A Reading of Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism #1Matthew K. DavisJohn Dewey’s Faith in Progress: An Impediment to Liberal EducationLuigi Bradizza Expanding the Core in the Name of ExcellenceThe Sand Reckoner: Archimedes’ Exploration of LargeNumbersSamuel R. Kaplan Space, Time, and Place in Newton’s Principia and Aristotle’s PhysicsBrian SchwartzDarwin’s Descent of Man and the Study of Science from a Liberal Arts PerspectiveDaniel J. McKaughanLas Casas’s In Defense of the Indians: Can a Just War Be Waged against Barbarians?Peter DiamondConnecting the Good and the Beautiful in Plato and Aldo LeopoldCraig CondellaInculturation and Global Core Curricula: Primer for Youth (Tongmong sonsup ????) as a Korean Core TextJames Jinhong Kim Religious Difference and Multiculturalism in the Liberal Arts: Reading Eboo Patel Reading Core Texts and CoursesWilson C. Chen Plenary Addresses on Excellence in EducationAfter the Fall: An Historical Reappraisal of Liberal Education (Everything Has to Change, If Things Are to Stay the Same)John Dowling Age of Freedom—Education for Freedom: How Can Kant Speak to Us Today?G. Felicitas Munzel