The integrity of learning and the search for truth

Educational Theory

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 185-200

  Hogan, Pádraig ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

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EID: 33845986263     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-2004.2005.00006.x     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Plato, Apology, trans. Benjamin Jowett, http://classics.mit.edu/ Plato/apology.html.
2. Plato, The Republic, trans. Benjamin Jowett, http://classics.mit. edu/Plato/republic.html.
3. James Bowen, A History of Western Education, vol. 2, Civilization of Europe: Sixth to Sixteenth Century (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979), 432ff.
4. Some notable examples are Charles Taylor, Multiculturalism, ed. Amy Gutmann (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994);
5. Seyla Benhabib, Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics (New York: Routledge, 1992);
6. Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988);
7. and Richard J. Bernstein, The New Constellation: The Ethical-Political Horizons of Modernity/Postmodernity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991).
8. See Alasdair Maclntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, 2d ed. (London: Duckworth, 1985); Alasdair Maclntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (London: Duckworth, 1988); and Alasdair Maclntyre, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (London: Duckworth, 1990).
9. Maclntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality? 400.
10. Newman's complaint is reviewed in detail by Fergal McGrath in his historical study The Consecration of Learning (Dublin: Gill and Son, 1964), 63ff.
11. Laetitia Boehm, "Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) and the University: Idea and Implementation," in Town and Gown: The University in Search of Its Origins, ed. Walter Ruegg (Geneva: CRE-Information, New Series 62, 2d quarter, 1983), 89-105.
12. Karl Jaspers, The Idea of the University, trans. H.A.T. Reiche and H. Vanderschmidt, ed. Karl W. Deutsche (London: Peter Owen, 1945).
13. Wilhelm von Humboldt, quoted in William Boyd and Edmund J. King, The History of Western Education (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1966), 336.
14. Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992), xxiv9.
15. Ibid., 65-74; and Lyotard, The Differend, xiii, 157ff.
16. Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 81. droit)" and the "undeconstructability of justice."
17. Seyla Benhabib provides a searching investigation of this issue in Situating the Self, chap. 5.
18. Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976), 10.
19. Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx, trans. Peggy Kamuf (New York and London: Routledge, 1994), 59.
20. Jacques Derrida, "Force of Law: The 'Mystical Foundations of Authority,'" in Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice, eds. Drucilla Cornell, Michel Rosenfeld, and David Gray Carlson (New York and London: Routledge, 1992), 14ff.
21. Michel Foucault, "Truth and Power," in The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow (London: Penguin, 1991), 73.
22. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Pantheon, 1977), 27-28.
23. Charles Taylor, "Foucault of Freedom and Truth," in Foucault: A Critical Reader, ed. David Hoy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986), 93.
24. Michel Foucault, "What is Enlightenment?" in The Foucault Reader, ed. Rabinow, 46-47.
25. Michel Foucault "Polemics, Politics and Problemisations: An Interview with Michel Foucault" in The Foucault Reader, ed. Rabinow, 381.
26. Michel Foucault, "Politics and Ethics: An Interview" in The Foucault Reader, ed. Rabinow, 378-379.
27. This final series of lectures, delivered in 1984, is the subject of an article by Thomas Flynn, "Foucault as Parrhesiast: His Last Course at the College de France," in The Final Foucault, eds. James Bernauer and David Rasmussen (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994), 101-118. Earlier versions of these lectures were presented at the University of California, Berkeley, in October-November 1983, http://foucault. info/documents/parrhesia. See Michael A. Peters, "The New Prudentialism in Education: Actuarial Rationality and the Entrepreneurial Self," included in this symposium.
28. George Steiner, Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say? (London: Faber and Faber, 1989).
29. See, for example, Hans-Georg Gadamer, "Reflections on My Philosophical Journey," in The Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer, ed. Lewis E. Hahn (Chicago and La Salle: Open Court, 1997), esp. 26-1-0.
30. These early dialogues are included in Plato, The Dialogues of Plato, vol. 1, trans. Benjamin Jowett (New York: Random House, 1937). They are also available on the Web at http://www.classics.mit. edu/Plato.
31. Gregory Vlastos draws the contrast between the practical-educational Socrates of the early dialogues and the more metaphysical-theoretical Socrates of the middle and later dialogues in a particularly clear way in his extensive study, Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
32. Plato, Apology,inThe Last Days of Socrates, trans. Hugh Trendennick (London: Penguin Books, 1993), 23a-b.
33. See Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 32-33.