As her language indicates, Dillard, who teaches history and politics at the Gallatin School at New York University, writes within the style current among younger, left-liberal humanities scholars -- a timorous style that often sacrifices verve to caution, advancing gingerly toward rather legalistic formulations about human reality.
The news his work provides that liberal humanism is superior precisely because it can encompass the humanity of even those who are most anti-liberal was a revelation.
I am simply arguing that the liberal arts — humanities, social and natural sciences, arts and mathematics — help us find what is meaningful to us, and help us pursue it.
The institute offers 14 majors and 20 minors categorized under engineering, liberal arts, humanities and the sciences.
One of the great achievements of modern times, he suggested, was the liberal conception of humanity: the view that there were universal and inalienable human rights, and that the powers of reason could both honor those rights and eradicate the world's evils.
This optimism would be helped if everyone agreed with Dworkin's essentially liberal view of humanity.
And in the arc of the narrative of God's interaction with humanity, liberal Christians find a radical expansiveness, an urgent desire to broaden the embrace of God's hospitality to include those whom the religious big shots are always kicking to the sidelines.
"The liberal arts and humanities kind of continuing-education programs haven't been as attractive to people.
Both Lisa Anderson and Santiago Iñiguez stressed the relevance of the liberal arts and humanities in helping students cope with the complexity of modern life.
We may not know exactly what those are, but we can be damn sure they are not liberal arts and humanities subjects.
