As a retired -- and still recovering -- academic, I agree with Stanley Fish that "the search for truth is its own value," and I, too, think the university should encourage responsible citizenship and questioning of moral values when "the morality in question" involves plagiarism, cheating and "shoddy teaching".
Black metal is conceptual by definition, due to its prominent theme of questioning the values of Christianity, and is often virtuosic.
Whereas in art, there's a playfulness around the identity of the artist, a history of questioning the value of "authentic" work, whether it's Duchamp signing a urinal "R Mutt", Gavin Turk framing his own signature or the Chapman brothers drawing rainbows on pastoral watercolours painted by one A. Hitler.
Despite the boon to the schools in Japan, the history of questioning the value of M.B.A.'s continues to present a hurdle, consultants and others say.
The phenomenon of questioning the value of business degrees took off in the 80's and 90's, when large Japanese companies were still sending their young employees in droves to American and European M.B.A. programs.
Professor Pi's words resonated with part of me, because that was precisely my logic back in middle school when I was drowning in a sea of exercise questions without ever questioning the value of rote learning.
("Sophisticated and edgy, this piece responds to the ultimate evolution in punk art, a movement initiated in the 1970s and questioning the values of bourgeois society," the promotional copy reads.
The importance of questioning the values, background assumptions, and normative orientations shaping sustainability research has been increasingly acknowledged, particularly in the context of transdisciplinary research, which aims to integrate knowledge from various scientific and societal bodies of knowledge.
To this criticism defenders of markets can reply by questioning the value of equality of outcomes.
He suffers a crisis of faith, questioning the value of "looking more precisely" at certain objects; there must be something worth seeing in what he paints, he believes, otherwise it isn't a fit subject for art.
