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    The Great Conversation: The Substance of a Liberal Education
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    1. chrisaldrich 23 Aug 2023
      Imagine the younger generation studying great books andlearning the liberal arts. Imagine an adult population con-tinuing to turn to the same sources of strength, inspiration,and communication. We could talk to one another then. Weshould be even better specialists than we are today because wecould understand the history of our specialty and its relationto all the others. We would be better citizens and better men.We might turn out to be the nucleus of the world community.

      Is the cohesive nature of Hutchins and Adler's enterprise for the humanities and the Great Conversation, part of the kernel of the rise of interdisciplinarity seen in the early 2000s onward in academia (and possibly industry).

      Certainly large portions are the result of uber-specialization, particularly in spaces which have concatenated and have allowed people to specialize in multiple areas to create new combinatorial creative possibilities.

      knowledge specialization combinatorial creativity interdisciplinary research interdisciplinary studies The Great Conversation Robert Maynard Hutchins Mortimer J. Adler death of the humanities resurgence of the humanities

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