The humboldtian idea of a university the bond between philosophy and the humanities in the making of the modern university

Neohelicon

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 33-37

  Istvan Feher M ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

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EID: 36849041599     PISSN: 03244652     EISSN: 15882810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1013869719861     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Walter Rüegg, "The Traditions of the University in the Face of the Demands of the TwentyFirst Century." In: The University of the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium to Celebrate the Centenary of the University of Chicago. Minerva. A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer 1992, p. 192.
2. Ibid., p. 196.3 In contemporary philosophy, this point emerges with particular significance in Gadamer's work. In the American reception it was Richard Rorty who took up and developed this idea into the notion of an "edifying" philosophy. See Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979),
3. p. 364: '"discovering the facts' [is] one project of edification among others." [⋯] "even when we know all the objectively true descriptions of ourselves, we still may not know what to do with ourselves"
4. (p. 363; see also p. 362: "one cannot be counted as educated - gebildet - if one knows only the results of the normal Naturwissenschaften of the day").4 Sheldon Rothblatt, The Modern University and Its Discontents. The Fate of Newman 's Legacies in Britain and America, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997, pp. 22, 24f., 25, 53.
5. Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, Touchstone Edition, New York - London: Simon & Schuster, 1988, p. 321.
6. Ibid., pp. 322f.
7. Jaroslav Pelikan: The Idea of University. A Reexamination. New Haven: Yale UP, 1992, p. 84.8
8. See recently the excellent article of Arnd Morkel, "Regnum, Sacerdotium, Studium. Die Aufgabe der Universität", in: Glanzlichter der Wissenschaft. Ein Almanack, ed. Deutscher Hochschulverband (Stuttgart: Lucius, 2001), pp. 143-152 (
9. this is a revised and expanded version of a paper appeared in Forschung und Lehre, 8/2000, pp. 396-398).
10. See here especially p. 144: "Für die Politiker steht fest: Aufgabe der Universität ist die berufliche Ausbildung sowie eine Forschung, die der Gesellschaft nützt. Das ist nicht falsch, aber unvollständig. Es trifft auch nicht den Kern, es fehlt das Entscheidende: das Streben nach Erkenntnis, die Suche nach Wahrheit. Die Suche nach Wahrheit [⋯] ist die eigentliche Bestimmung der Universität."