The Sinful University?

Authors

  • Daniel James Cook Grant MacEwan University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31542/j.muse.160

Abstract

There is a difference between doing something well and doing something good. And there is a difference between failing to do something well, and failing to do something good. In this paper, I assess our contemporary University in the latter sense of failure. While the University can be ineffective, or fail to function well, there is more at stake if the University, as an institution, is in conflict with nature. That is, it is one thing for the University to be ineffective in its means, but here I will pose the question: is the contemporary University sinful? Using Josef Pieper's elucidation of moral failure and John Henry Newman's analysis of the proper ends of University education, I defend the thesis that because the aim of our contemporary University seems to come in conflict with the goal of nature as a whole, it may be understood as sinful.

Author Biography

  • Daniel James Cook, Grant MacEwan University
    Philosophy Major in 4th year of Bachelor of Arts Program.

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Published

2014-10-22

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Arts and Sciences - Humanities

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How to Cite

The Sinful University?. (2014). MacEwan University Student EJournal, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.31542/j.muse.160