Original scientific paper
“Gentleman” as the Holder of Academic Life in J. H. Newman's “The Idea of a University”
Šimo Šokčević
orcid.org/0000-0002-8171-3437
; Catholic Faculty of Theology in Đakovo
Željko Filajdić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology in Đakovo
Abstract
The paper reflects on J.H. Newman's intellectual ideal - “gentleman”, “a man of philosophical habit”.“Liberal knowledge” is the theme of the first part of the paper in which we analyze Newman's vision of university through “liberal education” and characteristics of the “knowledgeits own end”. This carrying thought and special approach to knowledge are observed as an integral and essential part of “liberal education”, which finds its foundation in it, and as a bare minimum which emanates from human nature, as well as from the reality of science and university. In the second part we deal with the issue of “gentleman” as a living embodiment of conception of “knowledgeits own end”. We have noticed that as this knowledge was at once universal in scope and unified in character, so the man who possesses it as a kind of “miniature university”, in the older sense of the term. At the end, we conclude that contemporary university is far away from Newman's philosophy of education and that its knowledge is impersonal, instrumentalized, and it often does not lead to the truth.
Keywords
“gentleman”; John Henry Newman; “knowledgeits own end”; university; education
Hrčak ID:
178968
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Publication date:
30.3.2017.
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