Posted on 06/15/2022 8:19:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The new University of Austin (UATX), in Texas, will open this summer. It will be a radically different kind of university, neither right-wing nor left-wing. Rather, it will be on the wing that focuses on advancing truth.
What in the world does that mean, and what is truth? I can make this clear by quoting a passage from John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. Note that this passage is neither right- nor left-wing, but about truth:
If an opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. ... Though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of truth, and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
Mill was not pushing politics; he was pushing the delineation and discovery of truth. That is precisely the goal of the new University of Austin.
Session I begins in Dallas June 13–17, with Session II launching June 20–24. These sessions are given the strange title "Forbidden Courses" to reflect that the discussion will include topics now forbidden in most universities. "The purpose of civil discourse is not to share opinions but to shape and sharpen our understanding. All ideas should be heard" — which is the freedom of speech that John Stuart Mill encouraged — "but all ideas must also be backed up by reasoned arguments and evidence." There is no place here for mindless clichés about wokeness, cancel culture, political correctness, or Critical Race Theory.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Session I:
Session II:
UATX is currently seeking authorization from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to offer degrees as a private postsecondary educational institution and is pursuing accreditation eligibility from an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Once the institution receives these two authorities, the school will implement five centers of inquiry: the Center for Politics, Economics, and Applied History; Center for Theoretical and Experimental Science; Center for Mathematics, Technology, and Engineering; Center for Education and Public Service; and Center for Arts and Letters.
UATX declares: "For universities to serve their purpose [the unfettered pursuit of truth] they must be fully committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. In order to maintain these principles, UATX will be fiercely independent — financially, intellectually, and politically."
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Well, while we’re on the subject of truth, an additional quote...
“A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
William Blake
Why not just remove liberal arts and focus on BS and BBA degree programs?
There are two opposing truths these days though
You don’t think the arts, literature, and history of those are important? They encapsulate our historical values.
Will tuition at UATX be less than at Miskatonic U.?
You can’t actually go there. So I guess it’s free.
All “varieties of feminism” lead to one brand of Marxism. Funny how ladies fail to acknowledge that “feminism” was a term created by men to sell books, just like Dianetics was created by a guy who wanted to make money.
Prerequisites,not degreed programs.
I disagree. We need people to be expert in and able to teach our great classics of literature and art and the meanings they distill.
No. Find another campus for that. They will be libs no matter what.
Philistine.
…Texan.
Who’s definition of truth?
Looks like Woke U.
Whose definition of truth? The definition of the ages. Truth is the conformance of the mind with reality.
We don’t need another school/coll./univ. in Texas that is pushing liberal courses that do nothing to prepare students to make a living and benefit society.
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