Abstract

BICOCCA, Mauricio. The idea of ​​the University. A philosophical analysis of its vital principles in the Middle Ages and its change from the thought of Martha Nussbaum. Scripta Mediaevalia [online]. 2016, vol.9, n.1, pp.55-76. ISSN 1851-8753.

Today could be provocative attempt to inquire into the decline of the idea of ​​the university. Since you can argue the exact opposite. Indeed, both its quantitative growth and its progressive achievements of areas of influence may be displayed as indisputable facts of the success of the idea of ​​the university from its modest birth in the Middle Ages. However, the object of this work is to investigate the qualitative dimension of the idea of ​​the university, specifically sign that principle which originated on the formation of the student and show subsequent decay to the present. Indeed, from Bolognia such training is more like a professional school to open and dialogic in search of truth reflective process. In this regard, Martha Nussbaum shows important critical input to the current notion of higher education and proposes principles and approach for a college education that show some resemblance to those which formed the original idea of ​​medieval university.

Keywords : Middle Ages; idea of the University; paideia; capability approach; human development.

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