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• Title: Defining Professionalism: Newman then and Now
• Author : English Studies in Canada
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 52 KB

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John Henry Newman, like many Canadian scholars in the 1960s, was trained in a well-established institution and commissioned to start a new one. Newman used his experience in shaping reform in Victorian Oxford to design the first Catholic university in Ireland while rethinking the university more generally and defending liberal knowledge against the incursions of mechanical knowledge and the radical secularism it encouraged. The resultant lectures known as The Idea of a University are still revered today for defending core humanist values against crass instrumentality. What is less appreciated is how Newman's version of the academy was anxious and compromised. For extended evidence of this I refer you to his famous Fifth Discourse on "Knowledge Its Own End," but my example here comes from a lecture incorporated later, following on a recognition of epic poetry as imbricated with and subordinated to national destiny, in a locus classicus of imperialist ideology (Aeneid 6) that requires from Newman a more explicit, inadvertently revealing gloss: What an empire is in political history, such is a University in the sphere of philosophy and research. It is ... the high protecting power of all knowledge and all science, of fact and principle, of inquiry and discovery, of experiment and speculation; it maps out the territory of the intellect, and sees that the boundaries of each province are religiously respected, and that there is neither encroachment nor surrender on any side. It acts as an umpire between truth and truth, and, in taking into account the nature and importance of each, assigns to all their due order of precedence.... It is deferential and loyal, according to their respective weight, to the claims of literature, of physical research, of history, of metaphysics, of theological science. It is impartial towards them all, and promotes each in its own place and for its own object. (220)

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