In Plato’s Apology, Socrates’s claim to be wiser than anyone else in Athens rests on a paradoxical assertion-that he, at least, knows he is ignorant. If institutions spoke as forthrightly, some Catholic colleges and universities today might make a similar claim. More than other colleges and universities in the United States, they know that they do not know, or at (...)
November 17, 2006
Books
To What End?
The Sheed & Ward Anthology of Catholic PhilosophyEdited by James C. Swindaland Harry J. GenslerRowman & Littlefield, $35, 608 pp.
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