Comment by lacy_tinpot
13 hours ago
What it actually seems like is that Humanities are trying to retain/gain power in this new world where it's increasingly apparent that rigor is far more valuable.
If humanities taught logic, and actually rigorous analytic capabilities that were on par with STEM, I don't think we'd be in the situation we're in now.
Instead it's the opposite. The departments have made humanities increasingly easier, thereby devaluing them even more.
Hi, have you heard of philosophy?
Hi, Phil major here. I did math. I did logic, which was required. My peers in other humanities generally did not. But Phil might be the only exception.
Further I ended up taking a class that actually read original Greek texts, which isn't all that common even within the department I was at.
My point still stands.
One can graduate in philosophy without having heard a formal logic lecture. Philosophy only has rigor in some branches, most modern ones are less rigorous and more social, political or economical.
Rigor is not enough to build durability and sustainability. You learn that when you learn to build structures. It's not even metaphorical.
Wordplay isn't an argument. You learn that when you actually do engineering.