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University as the Environment of Academic Creation
Tomas Kačerauskas
; Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Department of Philosophy and Political Theory, Vilnius, Lithuania
Sažetak
The article deals with university as environment of scientific communication and academic creation. According to the author, university as an environment creates a scholar who creates in turn his (her) university. These active and passive sides could change their role while searching for certain identity, speaking both about an individual and his (her) community. At the beginning the idea of university covered in paradoxical way both the orientation to different spiritual regions united into one scientific (philosophical) field and the division of scientific body into existential parts with special communication. After removal of philosophical base, it was impossible not only agreement but also any quarrel between the faculties because of different objects to be researched and different scientific ways to be gone. After Humboldt’s reformations university becomes a knot of creative communication between an individual to be formed and the society to be created. According to author, the claim for universality is a kind of escape from mortal being speaking about both an individual and scientific community at university. Analysing the case of Vilnius University, the author states that the attention to regional culture and the aim to awake national creativeness had been inspired by Jesuits’ universalistic aspirations since it could be treated as a detour towards universal science and religion. Although science had served religious universalistic aims in the case of Jesuits’ activity, namely religion in certain territory had directed science towards regions of socio-cultural researches. According to the author, namely religion had served scientific differentiation and demarcation from metaphysical speculations without any cultural regions during Jesuits’ activity.
Ključne riječi
idea of university; scientific communication; academic creation; historical phenomenon; individual and social identity; creative environment; existential aspirations
Hrčak ID:
120137
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Datum izdavanja:
17.2.2014.
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