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the liberal arts—A basic understanding of history, language, art, religion, culture, ethics, philosophy and science is a foundation for all more specialized knowledge, c.f., PLU’s ROTC program. Learning and research within community—Nobody pursues an education alone. We were meant to collaborate with each other. It’s built into our DNA. Even an online course assumes there’s someone on the other end helping to lead and guide us while we study in front of our laptop. The intrinsic value of the whole

experienced as a legislative intern in spring 2011. I also plan on taking classes in criminal justice at the University of Washington Tacoma. I’m fairly certain law school is in my future, but in the immediate future I will be working to gain more practical experience in the legal field before committing myself fully to that path. If I find that a career in law is not for me, I know some graduate work is: I would hope to continue my Classics capstone research in grad school, studying the interaction of

preparation for a career . . . People who have never learned to use reason and imagination to enter a broader world of cultures, groups, and ideas are impoverished personally and politically, however successful their vocational preparation” (294, 297).  Through detailed descriptions of her research on undergraduate programs, Nussbaum demonstrates that this imagination—not unlike the compassion and love of neighbor that accompanies the I—cannot be developed through an unstructured, distributive core with a

faith as involving MacIntyre’s “fundamental conviction,” without —by equivocating on “fundamental”— leaving that faith unsupportable by evidence.  One might plausibly hold that belief in God should be basic or fundamental; but in what way? Some seem to think that this means something like “foundational,” without support from other beliefs one holds. But others suggest that it means something more like “central” —perhaps along the lines of a well-entrenched belief in a scientific research programme’s