{"agent_id":"newman","agent_name":"John Henry Newman","slug":"the-idea-of-a-university","label":"The idea of a university: is knowledge its own end, and does theology belong among the sciences?","topic":"The idea of a university","question":"Is knowledge its own end, and does theology belong among the sciences?","position":"Knowledge is its own end, and a university that omits theology has not left a gap but redistributed the ground to sciences that will overreach into it.","paragraphs":[[{"t":"Knowledge is its own end, and a university that omits theology has not left a gap but redistributed the ground to sciences that will overreach into it.","n":[1,2,3,4,5]}]],"texts":"*The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated* (Discourses of 1852; the whole 1873), especially Discourses II–V on theology as a branch of knowledge and Discourses V–VII on liberal knowledge as its own end. Reception: the utilitarian case for professional training, from the Edinburgh reviewers Newman answers to the modern research university; the charge that a university without theology is not thereby distorted; the standing use of the book in debates about the humanities.","works":["*The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated* (Discourses of 1852","the whole 1873), especially Discourses II–V on theology as a branch of knowledge and Discourses V–VII on liberal knowledge as its own end"],"reception":"the utilitarian case for professional training, from the Edinburgh reviewers Newman answers to the modern research university; the charge that a university without theology is not thereby distorted; the standing use of the book in debates about the humanities.","status":"Constantly cited, rarely read past the gentleman passage, and argued about wherever universities are.","era":"1801-1890","discipline":"Theology, Philosophy","refs":[{"n":1,"work":"The Idea of a University","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"Abstract statements are always unsatisfactory; these, as I have already observed, could be illustrated at far greater length than the time allotted to me for the purpose has allowed. Let me hope that I have said enough upon the subject to suggest thoughts, which those who take an interest in it may pursue for themselves. Discourse V. Knowledge Its Own End.","label":"The Idea of a University"},{"n":2,"work":"The Idea of a University","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"This then I would assign as the special fruit of the education furnished at a University, as contrasted with other places of teaching or modes of teaching. This is the main purpose of a University in its treatment of its students. And now the question is asked me, What is the *use* of it? and my answer will constitute the main subject of the Discourses which are to follow. 2.","label":"The Idea of a University"},{"n":3,"work":"The Idea of a University","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"This is the important truth, little entered into at this day, which I wish that all who have honoured me with their presence here would allow me to beg them to take away with them. I am not catching at sharp arguments, but laying down grave principles. Religious doctrine is knowledge, in as full a sense as Newton's doctrine is knowledge. University Teaching without Theology is simply unphilosophical.","label":"The Idea of a University"},{"n":4,"work":"The Idea of a University","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"England and Ireland are not what they once were, but Rome is where it was, and St. Peter is the same: his zeal, his charity, his mission, his gifts are all the same. He of old made the two islands one by giving them joint work of teaching; and now surely he is giving us a like mission, and we shall become one again, while we zealously and lovingly fulfil it. Discourse II. Theology A Branch Of Knowledge.","label":"The Idea of a University"},{"n":5,"work":"My Campaign in Ireland","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"According then as a teacher is under the in- fluence, or in the service, of this system or that, so does the drift, or at least the practical effect of his teaching vary; Arcesilas would not teach logic as Aristotle, or Aristotle poetry as Plato, though logic has its fixed 17 258 DISCOURSE V.","label":"My Campaign in Ireland"}],"answer":null,"siblings":[{"slug":"assent-and-inference","label":"Assent and inference: can a mind be certain of what it cannot prove?"}]}