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Abstract
This article provides a discussion of the book, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities by Martha C. Nussbaum from the perspective of a visiting scholar to the United States from China. It begins by addressing two critical topics discussed by Nussbaum: consequences of focusing only on economic growth and the importance of humanistic values. The article then incorporates the voices of other scholars as it considers implications of Nussbaum’s work. The article concludes by suggesting service-learning as a means of accomplishing the educational goals proposed by Nussbaum.
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Author Biography
Jing Lin is an associate professor and worked in School of Marxism of the Northeast Normal University from 1999. She received her PhD degree from School of Philosophy and Sociology of Jilin University in 2005. Her research interests are education and theory of Marxism.
