TY - BOOK AU - Reidy,Jade TI - We are, therefore I am: the life of John Hinchcliff SN - 187731420X U1 - 378.92 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Auckland [N.Z.] PB - Auckland University of Technology KW - Hinchcliff, John C. KW - Auckland University of Technology KW - Officials and employees, Retired KW - Biography KW - Philosophers, Modern KW - New Zealand KW - Educators KW - Government executives N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-79) N2 - Born with travel in his blood, John Hinchcliff's first overseas journey in 1958 coincided with the tragic drowning of his nine-year-old brother. That long boat journey gave him time to embrace the central questions philosophers have grappled with since turning away from mythology as an explanation for exsistence...what is the meaning of my life? Who am I? How shall I become? John Hinchcliff became a religious philosopher, visionary dreamer, feisty polytechnic reformer, educational theorist, asute politician, social activist, chaplain, husband and father, AUT's first vice chancellor and head of the institute for 20 years ER -