Martha Nussbaum Liberal Education

In the reading “Liberal Education & Global Community” by Martha Nussbaum starts off by introducing fear, which according to her seems to play a big role in narrowing our moral imagination and leading to polarization. She continues to explain that we as American citizen’s experience fear of other nations because we don’t take the time to understand their beliefs, cultures, needs and much more. Nussbaum proceeds to explain that by obscuring those outside of America, we are only limiting ourselves of the knowledge to come as one. She then introduces liberal education for Americans and non – Americans, which she believes is the Socratic part of her proposal to cultivate humanity. Her second element to Cultivating Humanity is for citizens to

The third part of her proposal is imaginative thinking as said in the reading “Means the ability to think what it might be like to be in the shoes of a person different from oneself”. Meaning it is a way of thinking in another’s point of view. She suggests that courses in literature and the arts can be used to achieve this imaginative and emotional connection. She also mentions the phrase “inner eyes,” by Ralph Ellison’s where she feels that in current developing countries “Courses in the arts and humanities, which bring students into contact with issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and cross-cultural experience and understanding”. This leads to her final proposition which touches the subject of “educating women in developing countries”. She emphasizes that “The gravest problems faced by all developing countries is the education of women”. She builds on her argument by explain how the education of women can greatly affect our countries development. The in progress curriculum for women should help them to think resourcefully and be well aware of our nation’s history helping them be more