Abstract

Introduction -- The idea of the university -- The aims of the university, or Humboldt then and Humboldt now -- Principles for undergraduate curricula -- Rhetoric, arguments, episteme metis and phronesis -- Some thoughts for curricula in the natural, social and human sciences and the establishment of new disciplines -- Research, teaching, publications, admission, assessment -- Democracy, higher education and the philosophy of education -- Doctoral education -- The university at the dawn of the digital age: realizing technology's transformative potential.