英文摘要 |
The Newman study emerging in the middle of the 1990s attached great importance to the critical value of his idea of university, which impaired the further understanding of Newman's meaning objectively. After the fading of the heat of Newman study, based on Newman's The Idea of a University, this paper makes a structural analysis of his idea with the approach of text analysis, and sorts out six core concepts in this book, namely, truth, moral, reason, general knowledge, liberal knowledge and liberal education. According to those concepts, the author re-examines the meaning of Newman’s idea of a university. Besides the well-known meaning of the liberal education, Newman’s idea of a university should also include two neglected meanings, that is, the fundamental relationship of reason and moral and that of the ego and the external world. The latter two have important fundamental values for the philosophical reflection on contemporary universities and their predicament, and for the linking of individual, society, knowledge and university.
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