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Source: Integral Institute – Scholars
Jack Crittenden, PhD, has for years been interested in what Voltaire called
the two poles of life—government and spirituality. Currently he teaches
political theory at Arizona State University and continues with his own
spiritual practice and investigations. He is a founding member of Integral
Institute.
| The educator John Dewey wrote that "Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife." This title examines the theoretical underpinnings of democratic education with radical solutions for the overhaul of a system of civic education dating back to the Founding Fathers. |
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| In the examination of the conception of human nature, a duality is commonly perceived–the liberal self as atomistic, self-contained, even selfish; and the communitarian self as socially situated and defined through its environment. Crittenden argues that neither view is acceptable, drawing on recent psychological research to expound on a theory of "compound individuality." This work includes a discussion of the compound individual as the self of liberalism, as well as a discussion of the sort of political organization that can generate personal identity constituted by liberal autonomy and communitarian sociality. |
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| Background report of the Seventy-Seventh Arizona Town Hall, prepared by Arizona State University. |