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What Is a University?
The aspirations that professors have for their students are critiqued in this analysis of modern universities. Noting the deterioration in the quality of a college education, it is argued that the universal ideal of wisdom has, in recent decades, been sacrificed for the mere acquisition of knowledge. A case is made for universities to rethink what they take for granted as a proper education and incorporate not only traditional subject matters—philosophy, science, literature, and art—but also the philosophies of life, nature, time, food, sex, and death.
128 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2006
About the author
Peter Milward
100 books10 followersFather Peter Milward, SJ was a Jesuit priest and literary scholar.
He was educated at Wimbledon College, entering the Society of Jesus in 1943 at the age of 18. He went on to study Classics and English Literature in Heythrop College and Campion Hall, Oxford.
In Oxford he made a point of attending the lectures of C. S. Lewis and the meetings of the Socratic Club.
In 1954 he was sent to Japan, where he learned the Japanese language and completed his study of Theology. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1960.
Milward joined the Department of English Literature at Sophia University in 1962. In time he became vice-chairman of the Renaissance Institute at Sophia University, and editor of the Institute's Renaissance Monographs. He was the first director of the university's Renaissance Centre, opened in 1984
Outside Japan, he was best known to academics as a specialist in Renaissance literature who, largely on the basis of research in the Huntington Library, compiled two fundamental aids for the study of religion in early modern England: Religious Controversies of the Elizabethan Age (1977) and Religious Controversies of the Jacobean Age (1978). Milward was also a book reviewer for Monumenta Nipponica. He was one of the leading proponents of the view that Shakespeare was a crypto-Catholic, and he wrote regularly for the St. Austin Review.
He was educated at Wimbledon College, entering the Society of Jesus in 1943 at the age of 18. He went on to study Classics and English Literature in Heythrop College and Campion Hall, Oxford.
In Oxford he made a point of attending the lectures of C. S. Lewis and the meetings of the Socratic Club.
In 1954 he was sent to Japan, where he learned the Japanese language and completed his study of Theology. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1960.
Milward joined the Department of English Literature at Sophia University in 1962. In time he became vice-chairman of the Renaissance Institute at Sophia University, and editor of the Institute's Renaissance Monographs. He was the first director of the university's Renaissance Centre, opened in 1984
Outside Japan, he was best known to academics as a specialist in Renaissance literature who, largely on the basis of research in the Huntington Library, compiled two fundamental aids for the study of religion in early modern England: Religious Controversies of the Elizabethan Age (1977) and Religious Controversies of the Jacobean Age (1978). Milward was also a book reviewer for Monumenta Nipponica. He was one of the leading proponents of the view that Shakespeare was a crypto-Catholic, and he wrote regularly for the St. Austin Review.
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May 18, 2020
He packs a lot of pith and power into a short volume. He certainly kept my attention for as long as he asked for it.
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