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Universitas and Moral Excellence: Higher Education and the Judicious Use of Knowledge

Universitas and Moral Excellence: Higher Education and the Judicious Use of Knowledge

Hostetter, Ray D.

Paperback

General Education

ISBN10: 0761836594
ISBN13: 9780761836599
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: Jan 15 2007
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.35 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

This work was born out of a concern that the advancement of society's underlying moral strength is becoming increasingly weaker. Due to this deficiency, there is a call to educators, particularly at the college and university levels, to give careful and collective attention to the three groundings that are consonant with well-functioning societies-morality, rationality, and personal responsibility.

The book discusses the universitas model (the historic function of an advanced academic community) as a reference for dialogue and reasoning in the pursuit of moral excellence. Dr. Hostetter articulates that higher educational institutions should seek to understand and restore this model with the ultimate aim of formulating a meaningful institutional worldview. Denoting entirety and signifying all together, universitas requires that a high measure of solidarity should be demonstrated. The work outlines potential steps and essential aspects of the universitas idea that institutions might consider useful.

An overarching goal of universitas is examined under the rubric, the judicious use of knowledge. This implies the necessity that collective stands regarding key values be taken. A basic premise is that colleges and universities should devote mindful attention to discerning the highest good as well as the supportive goods that are required to achieve the highest good for all. Examples of possible institutionally discerned goods are reviewed in several chapters according to religious, ideological, and institutionally unique categories.

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