The search for truth : history and future of universities /

"Universities have searched for truth over nearly a millennium. Maxwell Bennett recounts the history of this search during three of its most momentous periods in the 13th, 18th and 20th centuries, which helped fashion the idea of a university. He concludes with a cautionary assessment of whethe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bennett, M. R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Australia : The University of Sydney, 2022.
Temas:
Universities and colleges > History.
Education, Higher > History.
Scholasticism.
Empiricism.
Science > Study and teaching (Higher)
Truth > History.
Enseignement supérieur > Histoire.
Scolastique.
Empirisme.
Sciences > Étude et enseignement (Supérieur)
Vérité > Histoire.
scholasticism.
Education, Higher
Empiricism
Scholasticism
Truth
Universities and colleges
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part A. Divine truth and the University of Paris
  • Peter Abelard and the 12th-century French intellectual renaissance
  • Thomas Aquinas and the 13th-century reconciliation of theology and philosophy
  • Scholasticism and the University of Paris
  • Part B. Empirical truth and the University of Berlin
  • Immanuel Kant and the shift from humanism to empiricism
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt on languages and the philosophy of higher education
  • Disciplines and the University of Berlin
  • Part C. Scientific truth and the University of California
  • Robert Oppenheimer and discoveries in physics
  • Ernest Lawrence and the beginnings of 'big science'
  • The 'multiversity' of the University of California
  • Part D. The university and contemporary challenges
  • Universities and existential risk
  • Preserving the idea of a university.

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