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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Freedom-from or freedom-for?

academic freedom, responsibility, and the revival of the liberal arts

Michele AverchiEmanuele Colombo

pp. 133-152

Abstract

The debate on "academic freedom" is usually built around the idea of freedom from, namely the absence of constraints, boundaries, and limitations to the free expression of one's own epistemological position in scholarship and teaching. In particular, in the last decades, a supposedly neutral atheistic view has been imposing its view on the academy, even in many religiously affiliated institutions, both in the USA and in Europe. However, there is a second aspect of academic freedom, namely the academics' freedom to show the intrinsic connections between their field (whatever it is) and a broader metaphysical view (whatever it is), and this second aspect needs much more attention.

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Garcia Kenneth (2016) Reexamining academic freedom in religiously affiliated universities: transcending orthodoxies. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 133-152

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-39787-0_8

Full citation:

Averchi Michele, Colombo Emanuele (2016) „Freedom-from or freedom-for?: academic freedom, responsibility, and the revival of the liberal arts“, In: K. Garcia (ed.), Reexamining academic freedom in religiously affiliated universities, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 133–152.