Nicely put, Chris. Worth noting that the universities failed during the rise of the Third Reich, and this included faculty. Universities often to succumb to trends with all manner of political slant. Likely a deep dive into that history would reveal that the university was never truly the sort of entity you describe.
Aye, I am acutely aware that this piece invokes a mythic image of the university. Even if the mythic university was only ever an ideal, I still trust that we can indict the universities of any given era for their collective failures to embody their own ideals. If morality is adherence to ideals, this might indeed be the most basic method for moral judgement.
Nicely put, Chris. Worth noting that the universities failed during the rise of the Third Reich, and this included faculty. Universities often to succumb to trends with all manner of political slant. Likely a deep dive into that history would reveal that the university was never truly the sort of entity you describe.
Aye, I am acutely aware that this piece invokes a mythic image of the university. Even if the mythic university was only ever an ideal, I still trust that we can indict the universities of any given era for their collective failures to embody their own ideals. If morality is adherence to ideals, this might indeed be the most basic method for moral judgement.
Thanks for commenting,
Chris.