Reflection On The Premise Of The Idea Of A University

The idea of a university is always an absorbing word.It not only represents theheavenliness and sanctities of a university, but also expresses people's utopian feelingfor a university.Lately ,discussion about the idea of a university has become hot.Wecan get it from two aspects below.Firstly, it always refers to the idea of a university inwestern countries, when dealing with the crises of quality, outlay andmorality.Secondly, it is the time that we are researching the strategy of educationaldevelopment and building the top-tanking universities in the world.Along with theproblems of universities, scholars hope that they can contribute a little in idea to thedevelopment of universities by discussing the idea of a university.Discussion about the idea of a university is colorful and vehement, however, wefind that scholars discuss the idea of a university only in three ways.First, they insiston something by discussing the idea of a university.Second, they consider that theidea of a university should develop with the society and that the classic idea of auniversity is outdated.So we should bring up new ideas of a university.At last, thescholars put up their ideas of a university ignoring the history.Through the threeaspects above, we find that scholars always research macroscopically and come to aconclusion curtly.In the illusive boom, there are few scholars doing the basic researchand reflecting on the things below:what is a university, what is a idea, what is the ideaof a university, what is the staring point of the idea of a university and what is theessence of the idea of a university.The thesis is to discuss the questions such as what is a university, what is the ideaand what is the essence of the idea of a university by reflecting on the premise of theidea of a university.First, the thesis discusses the meaning of a university by threeways including derivation, connotation and denotation.Second, the thesis reverts themeaning of idea originally in philosophy by revealing the track of idea anddistinguishing the correlative concept of idea.Third, the thesis points out that the ideaof a university is to uncover the state of knowledge existing, that is to say, to revealthe relation among universities, life world, state and society.Then, by introducing thetheory of life world, the thesis reveals the relations and makes out the essence of theidea of a university.At last, by revealing the essence of the idea of a university, I havea conclusion of the idea of a university naturally that the idea of a university has twoparts including the basic idea of a university and the derivative idea of a university.