The Future of the University: Philosophy, Education and the Catholic Tradition
“The Future of the University: Philosophy, Education and the Catholic Tradition,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 87, 2013.
This essay situates issues of educational philosophy within a historical context, considering Confucius, Augustine, and Aquinas, while focusing on nineteenth-century British discussions of education by Herbert Spencer, Mathew Arnold, J. S. Mill, and J. H. Newman, and then engaging challenges posed in recent times by Richard Rorty and others to the very idea of humanistic knowledge and understanding.
