Explaining the Capture of the University.
The original academy was committed to the cooperative search for truth alone, wherever that search might lead. The truth was held to produce upright lives, which in turn would produce a humane community. Universities from ancient and medieval times to the modern age were designed to create enlighten...
| Publicado en: | Social Alternatives Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 58 - 64 |
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Social Alternatives
2015
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