Liberal arts on chopping block @ colleges

[BidenPresident]

It isn't liberal arts that's the problem, it's the professors that teach it...

You're a real jerkoff.

 

[Into the Night]

I was not even a liberal arts major, but I cannot imagine a university which does not have history, philosophy, religious studies departments.

There are actually quite a few. These subjects have been replaced with political propaganda in many colleges and universities.

 

[Into the Night]

If all you want to learn is just enough engineering and technology sufficient to get a job, we could just have vocational schools for that.

Plumbers, welders, builders, electricians, aircraft and automotive repair and restoration can make some seriously good money too. A hell of a lot more than some college graduate in 'liberal arts' working at MacDonald's.

 

[Into the Night]

American civilization is in total freefall.
It's disingenuous to feign surprise at anything anymore.

The way things are going, perhaps Waterworld can't come fast enough.

You might want it to be, but there's still plenty of life left in it.

 

[Into the Night]

Bohr, Schroedinger, Heisenberg were very interested in Eastern philosophy and they supposedly regularly read the Vedas and the Upanishads.

Quantum mechanics seemngly suggested to them that the reality we observe by sensory perception is just an illusion projected onto our consciousness.

That dichotomy between illusion and reality led them to an interest in Hinduism, which is based on the tenets that observable reality is an illusion which conceals an underlying reality.

^^ That is the kind of deeper contemplation which generally comes from a classical continental European education. The Anglo-American emphasis on logical empiricism generally precludes this kind of deeper philosophical thinking about the nature of scientific knowledge.

Not quantum mechanics.

The branch of philosophy known as 'phenomenology' tries to define what 'real' means.

Science is not knowledge. Science is a set of falsifiable theories.

 

[BidenPresident]

Not quantum mechanics.

The branch of philosophy known as 'phenomenology' tries to define what 'real' means.

Science is not knowledge. Science is a set of falsifiable theories.

No, phenomenology is about describing objects of consciousness.

 

[Into the Night]

Similar trend in England. Unless a university requires a philosophy class or another humanities class, kids will not take those classes.

Don't need a class in philosophy. It's really pretty simple.

You must form your own argument and the reasoning for it. That's pretty much it. You can't use the arguments of others or their reasoning.

 

[Into the Night]

I believe it,
that is why I contrasted the Anglo-American laser focus on an analytical logical empiricist approach, with the broader, more humanistic continental European education favored by the Germans and French

You deny logic. Logic is not empirical anything. All observations are subject to the problems of phenomenology.

 

[BidenPresident]

Don't need a class in philosophy. It's really pretty simple.

You must form your own argument and the reasoning for it. That's pretty much it. You can't use the arguments of others or their reasoning.

You know less than zero about how to argue.

 

[Into the Night]

This is more of a REPUBLICAN Brain Fart no different than the banning of French Fries, PBS, Robert Redford, and too many others to list.

The Trumptards hate the word Liberal- and everything associated with it- SO THEREFORE THEY HATE LIBERAL ARTS ALL OF A SUDDEN!

They also hate the terms democracy and democratic now- BECAUSE IT SOUNDS TOO MUCH LIKE DEMOCRAT! And we already know how much they hate them.

Can we just say TRUMPTARD here! Petty, hateful, and foolish comes to mind!

Republicans haven't banned french fries (I like them!), PBS, or Robert Redford. You still don't know what a democracy is.

 

[Into the Night]

99 times out of a hundred a Deplorable who complains about students majoring in basket weaving has never actually set foot on a college campus.

Argument from randU fallacies. You are making up numbers again.

 

[Into the Night]

No, phenomenology is about describing objects of consciousness.

There is no 'object of consciousness'. Buzzword fallacy.

 

[Into the Night]

You know less than zero about how to argue.

Bulverism fallacy.

 

[BidenPresident]

There is no 'object of consciousness'. Buzzword fallacy.

You are profoundly ignorant.

 

[BidenPresident]

Bulverism fallacy.

bye troll

 

[Into the Night]

bye troll

Inversion fallacy.

 

[BidenPresident]

Inversion fallacy.

you're a moron

 

[Into the Night]

you're a moron

Inversion fallacy.

 

[BidenPresident]

Inversion fallacy.

back to ignore. 100% of your posts are pure shit

 

[Into the Night]

back to ignore. 100% of your posts are pure shit

Bulverism fallacy. Thank you for removing yourself from the conversation.