Abstract

This article bring us closer to the classical vision of university created by one of the most distinguished XX century German philosophers J. Pieper (died in 1997). He formulated it in the seventies when university education was threatened with increasing tendency to treat university mainly as a place of acuring highly specialised education. Choosing this type of education was to guarantee economical succes. According to that Pieper reminds, defends and presents proper and basic principles of academic education. Pieper emphasizes the fact that the main purpose of such education is the knowledge of all existing reality and this studying should be governed by altruistic motives. In other words, in the university formation only truth and complation of „theoria” are really important. Philosophy, religion, theology, art. and tradition are the fundation of university. Completing university education itself does not mean forming a typical academic attitude. Today there are two types of detonation of this attitude- „worker” and „sophist”. It is necessary to distunguish between specialistic education „Bilding” and general „Ausbiliding”. The latter gives us the ability to know the whole reality. Specialistic sciences should be studied in a philosophical way. Platon’s academy remains the ultinmate foundation and the model of university. Therefore the beginnings as well as the cor4ect model of university have its orgin not in mediaeval but in acient times. Restoring the insitution of disputation may play an important role in the revival of academic spirint.