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☆ Opinion | I Teach the Humanities, and I Still Don’t Know What Their Value Is
  + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Agnes Callard | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
You might be surprised to learn that this bit of ignorance poses no obstacle to me in the classroom. I suppose it would if I approached the teaching of Descartes as a matter of explaining why reading Descartes will make you a better person, but that is not how I teach Descartes, nor does any philosopher I know teach Descartes in that way. In contrast, defenses of the humanities are not — and cannot be — conducted in an inquisitive spirit, because a defensive spirit is inimical to an inquisitive one. Politicization is a way of arming the humanities for its political battles, but it comes at an intellectual cost. Politicization silences these and other questions, whereas the function of the humanities is to raise them.
Persons: Descartes
☆ Opinion | The Case for Tourism
  + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Agnes Callard, a University of Chicago philosopher, infuriated various portions of the internet in June with an essay making the case against travel. Though really it was the case against tourism, since Callard exempted many forms of travel — for work or study, for personal or political reasons or charitable service — from her critique. The traveler departs confident that she will come back with the same basic interests, political beliefs and living arrangements. So I refrained from any comment on her thesis, assuming — like every other self-deluded tourist — that I would return more enlightened than before. But casting my mind back to that distant prior self, I dimly remember having two reactions to Callard’s essay.
Persons: Agnes Callard, Walker Percy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Chesterton, Callard, Mona Lisa, ’, Percy Organizations: University of Chicago, Scottish Locations: G.K, France, Britain, Netherlands
☆ How to Avoid Work Burnout: Lessons From a Wall Street Rising Star
  + stars: | 2023-05-23 | by ( Simone Stolzoff | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +11 min
But despite all his professional success, Khe started to notice a nagging feeling that he wasn't playing the right game. "Success is like an addiction," Khe told me. When Khe told his closest confidants that he was unhappy and considering leaving BlackRock, they'd say things like "That's so risky" or "What about your daughter?" At BlackRock, Khe had job security, a seven-figure annual income, and a fancy job title. Simone Stozloff is an independent journalist, a consultant from San Francisco, and the author of "The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work."
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