Idea Of A University, the : Defined And Illustrated In Nine Discourses Delivered To The Catholics Of Dublin In Occasional Lectures And Essays Addressed To The Members Of The Catholic University

The issues that John Henry Newman raised—the place of religion and moral values in the university setting, the competing claims of liberal and professional education, the character of the academic community, the cultural role of literature, the relation of religion and science--have provoked discussion from Newman's time to our own. 'The Idea of a University [is an] eloquent defense of a liberal education which is perhaps the most timeless of all [Newman's] books and certainly the one most intellectually accessible to readers of every religious faith and of none.... [O]nly one who has read The Idea of a University in its entirety, especially the nine discourses, can hope to understand why its reputation is so high: why the first reading of this book has been called an ‘epoch'in the life of a college man; why Walter Pater thought it ‘the perfect handling of a theory'; why the historian G. M. Young has ranked it with Aristotle's Ethics among the most valuable of all works on the aim of Education; or why Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch told his students at Cambridge that ‘of all the books written in these hundred years there is perhaps none you can more profitably thumb and ponder.'” —from the introduction by Martin J. Svaglic By John Henry Cardinal Newman ; Edited, With An Introduction And Notes, By Martin J. Svaglic. A series of lectures about the purpose of Universities in society.