Scott Samuelson states in his article in
The Atlantic that “Liberal arts and
the humanities aren't just for
the elite.” In the last paragraph of this superb text, he says
and I quote:
I once had a
janitor compare his mystical experiences with those of the medieval Sufi
al-Ghazali’s. I once had a student of redneck parents—his way of describing
them—who read both parts of Don Quixote because I used the word
“quixotic.” A mother who’d authorized for her crippled son a risky surgery
that led to his death once asked me with tears in her eyes, “Is Kant right that
the consequences of an action play no role in its moral worth?” A wayward
veteran I once had in Basic Reasoning fell in love with formal logic and is now
finishing law school at Berkeley.
He
goes on to claim that “The fire will always be sparked. Are we
going to fan it, or try to extinguish it? Do you agree or is
this an unnecessary luxury in the current times? Read the whole article and
decide then write a response or reaction essay. Access the text by clicking
below:
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