RE: Is There A Conflict Between Science and the Liberal Arts?
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I probably should have started my question with the observation that the political class pulled the study of logic from the curriculum a century ago.
The foundations of the liberal arts are "grammar, logic and rhetoric."
When the ruling elite pulled logic from the curriculum, we stopped having a liberal arts curriculum. Is this not true?
You are correct that people have performed numerous illiberal acts in the name of "liberal." They do illogical things in the name of "liberal" as well.
One can pull this game on any term.
You mentioned radical gender studies. The people who push the claim that there's over 50 genders do so in the name of science.
The people who play the word bending game will take any word that has a positive connotation and misuse it to push whatever poison they are trying to push.
It seems to me that the easiest way to show that the actions of our government is illiberal is to expose the fact that the ruling elite removed the study of logic from the schools.