Sentences with phrase «how liberal studies»

I now propose to show more concretely just how liberal studies entail the practice of freedom, by examining briefly the nature of the knowing process in some of the main disciplines in the liberal arts and sciences.

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Dave and Helen Edwards, co-founders of artificial intelligence research firm Intelligenstia.ai, don't go so far as to suggest a specific course of study, but like Kalt they have publicly insisted that if you want your kids to thrive in an AI - filled future, you better teach them how to handle human beings, unpredictability, and complexity, all of which a liberal arts degree forces you to confront and grow comfortable with.

She talks about the scores of ethnographies she'd read, and how white, liberal social scientists were shocked, shocked to discover that most of the Klan members they studied were pretty nice people.

On the contrary, it is eminently a liberal and liberalising study, since it shows us how to relate our own contemporary social experience to the wider perspectives of universal history.

In the meantime, to those Tom Harris charcaters in the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equality?

Flanagan, a 57 - year - old trade - directory publisher who once had aspirations of running for office, is now a study in conservative grassroots activism, illustrating both the way in which Tea Party groups can figure into policy fights even in a liberal state like New York, and how they maximize the influence they have with public officials.

Nevertheless, this study is likely to find itself in the groaner column for conservatives who've grown weary of presumed - liberal researchers publishing studies demonstrating how wonderfully self - actualized and mature their own moral tendencies and preferences are.

The study also paints a good picture about how liberal adult education courses are offered and organised in different countries.

In its first budget since being elected, the Liberal government gave Statistics Canada $ 500,000 to study how to best gather information on home purchases by foreigners.

The paper shows that liberals are more biased than conservatives, at least when and how we studied it.

The study did not examine how Republican voters respond to liberal messages for action on climate change — but past research has attempted this, and the answer isn't exactly pretty.

Some other research suggests that conservatives generally score higher in the belief that respect for authority figures is a core part of our morality (in other words, liberals don't believe that showing disrespect for authority figures is morally wrong, but conservatives feel that it's very wrong).3 For example, in one study researchers asked people how much money they would need to be paid to behave in a way that is blatantly rebellious.