What Does "Academic" Mean? – Two Essays on the Chances of the University Today - Tapa blanda

Pieper, Josef; Schall, James V.; Farrelly, Dan

 
9781587319334: What Does
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ISBN 10: 1587319330 ISBN 13: 9781587319334
Editorial: St Augustine's Press, 2015

Sinopsis

"What Does "Academic" Mean? focuses, in two essays, on the prospects of contemporary universities. The term "academic" is traced back to Plato's 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 Plato's 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 byuniversity 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"--

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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. Augustine’s Press has published over thirteen of his works thus far.

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St Augustine's Press
Año de publicación
2015
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1587319330
ISBN 13 
9781587319334
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