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by Top19 3107 days ago
Do you hate the liberal arts?

Their importance in college was really emphasized after World War II, as many of the leading Nazis were seen as non-intellectuals without moral restraints developed by the study of history, philosophy, theology, etc.

Liberal Arts should be cheap you’re right, but it also should be required.

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A big problem with liberal arts currently is it is burgeoning with new fields of study that are truly political movements masquerading as scholarship -- where liberal arts should only be motivated by the search for truth.

So in a sense, the liberal arts aren't the liberal arts anymore.