What Does "Academic" Mean?  Two Essays on the Chances of the University Today (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
92
Utgivningsdatum
2015-08-20
Förlag
St Augustine's Press
Översättare
Dan Farrelly
Medarbetare
Schall, James V.
Dimensioner
211 x 135 x 8 mm
Vikt
136 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781587319334

What Does "Academic" Mean? Two Essays on the Chances of the University Today

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What Does Academic Mean? focuses, in two essays, on the prospects of contemporary universities. The term academic is traced back to Platos Academy in a grove in Athens. The Academy is isolated, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Western universities founded in the Middle Ages show continuity, via Byzantium, with Platos Academy. Not surprisingly, the Oxford Dictionary quoted by Pieper defines academic as Not leading to a decision; unpractical. The preoccupation of the academic as academic is seen by Pieper to be fundamentally theoretical, not practical. Pure theory is that which cannot at all be pressed into service. Clearly, many university disciplines that are richly funded by industry and business concerns tend to be favored by university administrations, which, intent on financial survival, frown on unproductive disciplines such as pure philosophy: metaphysics being a case in point, since it is the discipline least capable of practical application. Pure philosophy, unlike any other discipline, has as its subject the totality of being. Every other discipline deals with a particular aspect of being for example, the physical, the psychological, the technical but not the totality. For Pieper, spirit is that which makes us open to truth all truth without any need to exploit it in the concrete world. The sciences open up more and more access to reality, more and more for us to contemplate. They show us more of the totality, but none of the sciences is interested in the totality as such. The philosophy which deals with the totality and asks, with Alfred North Whitehead, What is it all about? is seen by Pieper as central to the university. Essentially, it contemplates the wonder of being.
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Josef Pieper is considered the greatest Thomist philosopher of the twentieth century, and is the author of many work in philosophy and theology. St. Augustines Press has published over thirteen of his works thus far.

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CONTENTS Introduction by James V. Schall, S.J. WHAT DOES ACADEMIC MEAN? I A Western concept Philosophical means theoretical Destruction through being pressed into service The exclusive property of the gods The worker and the sophist Separation from the many II Purity of theory The philosophiser and the ancients New rootedness in cult? OPENNESS FOR THE TOTALITY OF THINGS Experiences behind institutions Spirit as receptivity to the totality of the world The role of the sciences Philosophy as the centre of the university Openness to every conceivable aspect Openness to disputations Notes Index