{"id":4553,"date":"2006-02-15T23:35:18","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T23:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/an-ideal-worth-striving-for.html"},"modified":"2006-02-15T23:35:18","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T23:35:18","slug":"an-ideal-worth-striving-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/an-ideal-worth-striving-for.html","title":{"rendered":"An ideal worth striving for"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s<\/a> an excellent piece in the Notre Dame paper by law professor Paolo Carroza on the Current Troubles at the university. (Annoying thing – there’s no "single page view" option, so one must click through 4 separate pages. Grrr. But it’s worth it)<\/p>\n

His piece concentrates on the meaning of "academic freedom," working from the starting point of Jenkins’ address:<\/p>\n

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One part of University President John Jenkins’ address on academic freedom and Catholic character that has largely been overlooked is also one of the most challenging and consequential. Jenkins lauded the "scholarly temperament" as one of the highest ideals of the University of Notre Dame, a quality which he described as "a Socratic conviction about one’s ignorance, and a corresponding willingness to entertain questions and various answers to them." He went on to note that such a temperament "demands an appreciation of the complexities in any area of reality, high standards of inquiry and inference, a reluctance to settle for the current synthesis, and a resistance to a premature closure of questions."<\/p>\n

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Which is the more ambitious, more demanding and more exalted view of academic freedom, education and research: one that is satisfied with a complacent welcoming of every diminished or demeaning view of our rationality and our humanity that may be given by the prevailing conventions of the world; or one that insists uncompromisingly on the scholarly temperament and urges us not to settle for anything that fails to correspond adequately to the ultimate value and meaning of our lives? <\/p>\n

The greatness and promise of the University of Notre Dame consists in striving toward the latter as its goal. It pushes our research to be both broader and deeper. It impels our teaching to be more dedicated to the good of our students in friendship rather than giving in to boredom or the temptation to indoctrination. It urges students always to look for reasons and to remain open to those answers that can more fully satisfy their deepest yearnings for truth, justice, beauty and happiness. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s a very interesting take (very CL, actually!)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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