USUPhilosophy

I never tire of posting articles on the value of a classical liberal arts education.  Read here for some reflections on a recent Ralph McInerny interview.

On a totally unrelated point: Classic item in the Herald Journal today, the sort of thing you only read in Utah.  They were highlighting a bright young girl (valedictorian of her class I believe) who will soon be graduating from high school.  All she could talk about was her marriage in one month.  Here was the classic Utah line: ‘She’s been dating since she was in 8th grade, so thought it was time to settle down.’  Hilarious.

Pretty funny.

Advisory: naughty words used (aplenty).

There is a good YouTube interview with John Perry, a philosopher at Stanford who has been hugely influential in thinking about personal identity. What’s especially valuable is the personality Perry shows — patience, wisdom, and modesty. Worth a look.

This article, titled ‘Defining Discourse Down’ does a pretty nice job of summing up why serious conversations are so difficult in this day and age (he blames it on an excess of both jerkiness and niceness).  He has some sound advice at the end too.

See the results of a largish poll here.