Making of the Modern University Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality

Name: Making of the Modern University Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality
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ISBN: 9780226710204

ISBN-10: 0226710203

ISBN-13: 9780226710204

Edition: 1996

Authors: Julie A. Reuben

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What is the purpose of higher education, and how should we pursue it? Debates over these issues raged in the late nineteenth century as reformers introduced a new kind of university--one dedicated to free inquiry and the advancement of knowledge. In the first major study of moral education in American universities, Julie Reuben examines the consequences of these debates for modern intellectual life. Based on extensive research at eight universities--Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Stanford, Michigan, and California at Berkeley--Reuben examines the aims of university reformers in the context of nineteenth-century ideas about truth. She argues that these educators tried to…

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List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 374
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Unity of Truth



Science and Religion Reconceived



The Open University



The Reconstruction of Religion



Scientific Substitutes for Religion



Value-Free Science



From Truth to Beauty



Administrative Order


Conclusion


Notes


Index