I Teach the Humanities, and I Still Don’t Know What Their Value Is

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By Agnes Callard, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago

As a humanist — someone who reads, teaches and researches primarily philosophy but also, on the side, novels and poems and plays and movies — I am prepared to come out and admit that I do not know what the value of the humanities is. I do not know whether the study of the humanities promotes democracy or improves your moral character or enriches your leisure time or improves your critical thinking skills or increases your empathy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/opinion/education-humanities-college-value.html

A bold statement or hack admitting she has a good job and does not care anymore?
 
BidenPresident said:
By Agnes Callard, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago

As a humanist — someone who reads, teaches and researches primarily philosophy but also, on the side, novels and poems and plays and movies — I am prepared to come out and admit that I do not know what the value of the humanities is. I do not know whether the study of the humanities promotes democracy or improves your moral character or enriches your leisure time or improves your critical thinking skills or increases your empathy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/02/opinion/education-humanities-college-value.html

A bold statement or hack admitting she has a good job and does not care anymore?
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Looks to me like she is losing her faith in her own career. At age 47, she could be having a midlife crisis. Her autism may be a factor in not finding an answer soon.

As for Humanities, it's a good field. Human beings are often trisected into mind, body and spirit. The hard sciences cover the body and spiritual/religious pursuits the spirit. Humanities...and behavioral psychology, covers the mind. <---notice the plug there. LOL


https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/13/agnes-callard-profile-marriage-philosophy
The philosopher, who lives with her husband and her ex-husband....was diagnosed with autism in her thirties.
 
Well, for many women who go to college, the humanities offer simple degree programs that fit well with their intention of getting an Mrs. degree...
 
Adam Smith was a Professor of Moral Philosophy.

Essential theorist of capitalism in "The Wealth of Nations."

But, you know, philosophy is worthless, right?!
 
She has a household that includes her ex husband and their child together with her current husband and their child together
 
Doc Dutch said:
Looks to me like she is losing her faith in her own career. At age 47, she could be having a midlife crisis. Her autism may be a factor in not finding an answer soon.

As for Humanities, it's a good field. Human beings are often trisected into mind, body and spirit. The hard sciences cover the body and spiritual/religious pursuits the spirit. Humanities...and behavioral psychology, covers the mind. <---notice the plug there. LOL


https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/13/agnes-callard-profile-marriage-philosophy
The philosopher, who lives with her husband and her ex-husband....was diagnosed with autism in her thirties.
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Or the message she is trying to convey might mean more than the simple statement appears to mean on a surface scratch
 
evince said:
T. A. Gardner said:
Well, for many women who go to college, the humanities offer simple degree programs that fit well with their intention of getting an Mrs. degree...
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What a shit box you are
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Notice the misogyny. IMO, bigotry = low self-esteem and/or a weakness of mind and spine.

Naturally superior people like myself have no need to look down on people as being lesser in the eyes of the law or God. Trumpers, not so much. :thup:

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