Knowledge and Learning

Here we have another extract from St. John Henry Newman’s series of lectures which were published as The Idea of a University, the ideas for which were developed when Newman was charged with the task of establishing a Catholic university in Ireland. The book was originally a series of lectures presented in Dublin in May and June of 1852. In this extract, Newman (1801-1890) explains how the regimen of study in a university effects a human development and even perfection which, good in its own right, contributes to many other kinds of good without being justified by a merely utilitarian value. [For more of these Catholic essays, see the Table of Contents.]

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