To What End?
Bernard G. Prusak November 13, 2006 - 5:37pm
The Sheed & Ward Anthology of Catholic Philosophy
Edited by James C. Swindal
and Harry J. Gensler
Rowman & Littlefield, $35, 608 pp.
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 least are questioning what the mission of a college or university should...
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