ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the sense of what seems to be common ground in the way of intelligence, and that intelligence in the sense is to be valued. An education that is liberal conceived in wide and generous terms, rather than confined to narrow specialism, and in that it liberates the individual from the deadly constraints of the here and now, the particular and the concrete. The liberally educated person has what term the educated intelligence. The educated intelligence involves a concern for truth, reasonableness, precision, accuracy, clarity, open-mindedness, and tolerance. Fukuyama has recently argued that liberal democracy is the end of a natural historical process; it is the ultimate form of government. Anthony Trollope provides more searching and subtle analysis of human character than Agatha Christie does and that judgement, is more nearly an indisputable fact than it is a subjective matter of opinion. His work is therefore more relevant to developing the kind of understanding we are concerned with.
