Beyond the Battlefield of Ideas – Jacob Wolf

Beyond the Battlefield of Ideas – Jacob Wolf

My position is that a university cannot be an open society in all respects and that it must be bounded in certain ways in order to achieve its fundamental mission. That mission, I believe, requires us to draw lines and make distinctions. To that end, it would be helpful to define what people generally mean by an “open society.” At its most philosophical level, an open society is one that is purposefully indeterminate with regard to ends. That is…