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    1. larsonkn 01 Feb 2019
      The choices we make now, as we shape our curricula and create academic departments and divisions, will shape the minds of future generations and of intellectual cooperation.

      Our opportunity to stop the growing divide between humanities and science is now. Future generations would be at a great loss if the arts and humanities were deemed unnecessary to a proper education. In their own right the two disciplines at odds here are equally as important as the other, and without one the other looses valuable intricacies.

    2. larsonkn 01 Feb 2019
      Such technological advances call into question the wisdom of our scientific advances, raising issues related to machine control and the ethical manipulation of humans.

      This reminds me of the question: Just because you can does that mean you should? Humanities is a field where questioning the impact of a given action is considered almost before the action itself has been decided, alternate to stem which often is driven by progress for the sake of progress.

    3. larsonkn 01 Feb 2019
      Scientists tend to approach problems with brash enthusiasm and, often, with naïve expectations. They would do well to share the room with skeptical philosophers who ponder such questions in broader contexts

      The combination of different approaches ultimately has the potential to neutralize the faults and misgivings of the two contrasting groups, again suggesting they work better together than apart.

    4. larsonkn 01 Feb 2019
      to look at any of these questions from a one-sided perspective, either scientific or humanistic, is like looking through a window with the blinds down. We have the unprecedented opportunity to bring the sciences and the humanities back into constructive engagement, as complementary and interdependent facets of human knowledge.

      This is a great way to see any discipline of study, as it's in the combination of fields of study that the largest benefit is gained. There's so much more to be gained from looking at any situation from multiple viewpoints, because diversity in thought is diversity in solutions. Only seeing something from one point of view limits the understanding of that something severely.

    5. larsonkn 01 Feb 2019
      "I believe the intellectual life of the whole of Western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups ..."

      I see the truth behind this, even in my interactions with my friends and peers. At least one friend comes to mind that genuinely believes the arts are a useless thing to study, which is unfortunate as the humanities have their own critical functions in society.

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