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  1. Educating Citizens for Humanism: Nussbaum and the Education Crisis.Melina Duarte - 2015 - Studies in Philosophy and Education 35 (5):463-476.
    “What purpose does your knowledge serve?” In her book, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, Martha Nussbaum states the difference between a democratic education for citizenship and an education for profit, and draws attention to the current education crisis caused by an overvaluation of the latter over the former. An education for democratic citizenship aims to develop three key abilities: critical thinking, the capacity to understand and to transcend parochial attachments, and empathy. An education for profit, however, requires (...)
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