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Michel Foucault

is, like the arts, vastly more important in troubled times.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

is functional in our lives only when we neither forget it nor try to return to it.

is in the world not of measurement of repeatable experiments, but that of ethical choice. For verified experiment and observation, students need to face in the same direction... for ethical choice, they need to face one another.

The scientist can appeal to an authority beyond controversy, the authority of repeatable experiments, accurate measurements, prediction, and verified observations. The humanities can never escape from controversy, because they are in the world of ethical choice. For verified experiment and observation, students need to face in the same direction... for ethical choice, they need to face one another.

is own destiny, he will need the perspective and attitude of the humanist.

own destiny, he will need the perspective and attitude of the humanist.

is useful only when trying to be useless (i.e philosophy) and dangerous when trying to be useful.

Academics are only useful when they try to be useless (say, as in mathematics and philosophy) and dangerous when they try to be useful. (Taleb)

is tasked with helping to better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

's importance lies in the fact that if history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute.

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

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