Source: John Henry Newman, Discourse V in The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin (1852)
Concepts
- Utility
- Universal learning
- «Liberal»
- Habit of mind
- Philosophical habit
- Liberal Knowledge
- Useful Knowledge
- Education
Inventory of questions
- What is the education which by virtue of these principles we give to the students?
- In what way is the teaching of Liberal Arts useful?
- Why should the student be introduced to a variety of subjects instead of specializing?
- Why should the range of studies be enlarged in a University?
- What is the actual result in the student from studying in such a place?
- But what is the use of the product of this kind of education?
- What is the gain of Philosophy?
- How are we better for this master view of things that Philosophy gives?
- Does it not reverse the principle of the division of labour?
- will practical objects be obtained better or worse by its cultivation?
- to what then does it lead?
- where does it end?
- what does it do?
- how does it profit?
- what does it promise?
- Is knowledge capable of being its own end?
- What does it mean to pursue knowledge for its own sake?
- What does ‘liberal’ mean?
- How does the liberal differ with its opposites e.g. the mercantile?
- What do we mean by Knowledge?
- What is knowledge?
- What is education?
- How do knowledge and education differ?
- What is the object of the church in taking up philosophy?
- And what are the uses it gives to it?
- what has Philosophy taught men, but to promise without practising, and to aspire without attaining?
- What is the difference between Religion and the Liberal Arts?
- What is the beauty of the intellect?
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