Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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PHILOSOPHY In one of his most profound and scintillating insights, John Henry Cardinal Newman enriched the pages of his Idea Of A University with a conclusive analysis and sweeping indictment of the techniques whereby godless professors thought that they might purge the uni- versity curriculum of theology. Their attack, involving a conspiracy of silence, a glorification of the imagination and a deification of material reality, was to be the height of subtlety. After all, they seemed to say in their heart of hearts, there is no God, no truth, no certainty other than that tentative variety which sense experience forces us to accept. With but few terms revised, the hopes and methods of the godless professors of Newman ' s time are the aspirations and procedures of the anti-intellectual professors of today. If this be not so, then how are we to explain the de-emphasis of true philosophy and the decline of sane philosophers on the contemporary educational scene? It is a sad fact that philosophy, the handmaiden of theology, has been so abused and undermined that many college graduates may never come to know that the answer to the question, Why? is infinitely more significant than the answer to the question, How? Boston College, however, has not been ensnared by the anti-intel- lectuals, nor has she ever renounced the heritage of Aristotle and Augustine, Aquinas and Suarez. Indeed, to the joy of faculty, alumni and students, she is erecting a Gothic temple of scholastic philosophy wherein The Truth Will Make You Free. fhilosophta