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

Cypress said:
Having students in an elective introductory philosophy class reading Hegel and Kant like it's still 1870 is a surefire way to kill intro philosophy at the College level. Those 19th century Germans are notoriously dense to read in translation.

I heard a professor of East Asian studies say his class on Confucious always fills up, and even the Stoics, Marcus Aurelius, and Plato are better reads than the iconic German philosophers.

I think you could even have a class on the philosophy of Einstein, the classic Russian novelists, or the Zen masters and every chair would be filled.
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Einstein was not a philosophy you dimwit.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Because that's easier than looking at actual real problems and working with others to solve them. That might require that word anathema to Reichwingers: COMPROMISE.
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Which is the primary problem in our government since the end of the Cold War; Congress failing to properly address our nation's problems because they rarely compromise any more.
 
BidenPresident said:
Einstein was not a philosophy you dimwit.
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The only thing worse than a closed-minded conservative is a closed-minded liberal.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/einstein-philscience/
Einstein’s Philosophy of Science
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) is well known as the most prominent physicist of the twentieth century. His contributions to twentieth-century philosophy of science, though of comparable importance, are less well known. Einstein’s own philosophy of science is an original synthesis of elements drawn from sources as diverse as neo-Kantianism, conventionalism, and logical empiricism, its distinctive feature being its novel blending of realism with a holist, underdeterminationist form of conventionalism. Of special note is the manner in which Einstein’s philosophical thinking was driven by and contributed to the solution of problems first encountered in his work in physics. Equally significant are Einstein’s relations with and influence on other prominent twentieth-century philosophers of science, including Moritz Schlick, Hans Reichenbach, Ernst Cassirer, Philipp Frank, Henri Bergson, Émile Meyerson.
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Doc Dutch said:
Being "in your face" about one's politics often doesn't go over very well in most professions.
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And certainly not during job interviews. His FB page used to be filled with posts about guns, RW politics, what shitheads libs are, and so on. When he got laid off a few years back and couldn't find a job for a year, he took all that down and replaced it with neutral things like family pics and landscapes.
 
Cypress said:
That's true.

But as much as FOX and MAGA complain about liberal arts, only a very small minority of students major in liberal arts, and I think it's been that way for decades.

MAGA has been trained like monkeys to complain about a 'problem' that doesn't really exist.
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That's because most are not college graduates. They are bitter because they made poor decisions in their youth and now have to live with the consequences in their elderly years.

Those that did have some college are clearly demented and/or angry over what they perceive as injustices in their lives. Boo hoo. Life isn't fair. This is why I have very little respect for MAGAts. They are gutless whiners
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
And certainly not during job interviews. His FB page used to be filled with posts about guns, RW politics, what shitheads libs are, and so on. When he got laid off a few years back and couldn't find a job for a year, he took all that down and replaced it with neutral things like family pics and landscapes.
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Wow. No shit.

Out of curiosity, how old is he and what is his birth order?
 
Doc Dutch said:
That's because most are not college graduates. They are bitter because they made poor decisions in their youth and now have to live with the consequences in their elderly years.

Those that did have some college are clearly demented and/or angry over what they perceive as injustices in their lives. Boo hoo. Life isn't fair. This is why I have very little respect for MAGAts. They are gutless whiners
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and then there are the youths who are looking at a country where boomer fucktoids sent all the jobs away out of their own brainwashed idiocy.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Does he like that career?

One of our brothers-in-law has a masters in history. He never did anything in that field. He has worked at various nonprofits and museums instead. He complains bitterly that he wanted to go into teaching, maybe at the h.s. or community level, but he couldn't get hired "because they're all liberals and won't hire a conservative." The fact that he wears his VERY RW political POV on his sleeve might have been an issue there, eh? lol
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My brother got a second degree in electrical engineering, which is how he got his gig at NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab.

When rightwing history majors go into interviews announcing they refuse to teach about slavery, the civil rights movement, or the internment of Japanese Americans, it might risk their chances of getting hired.


Interesting that 'personal accountability' conservatives blame liberals for their failures in life.
 
Cypress said:
My brother got a second degree in electrical engineering, which is how he got his gig at NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab.

When rightwing history majors go into interviews announcing they refuse to teach about slavery, the civil rights movement, or the internment of Japanese Americans, it might risk their chances of getting hired.


Interesting that 'personal accountability' conservatives blame liberals for their failures in life.
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Which is the defining difference between the GOP and Trumpism.


Blazed Pascal said:
and then there are the youths who are looking at a country where boomer fucktoids sent all the jobs away out of their own brainwashed idiocy.
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QED
 
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