Abstract

To commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the foundation of Marquette University, the head of its Department of Philosophy addresses himself appropriately to the general theme of the relation of freedom to the knowledge of truth. His analysis stresses simple practical as well as speculative lessons, the importance of deep natural knowledge as well as the good use of it. Education must aim at knowledge as well as virtue: “The good use of feeble or false knowledge is no more an ideal freedom than is good knowledge badly used an ideal education”.