Social sciences and humanities faculties 'to close' in Japan after ministerial intervention

That needs to happen here and everywhere else. Liberal arts and social pseudo-science have done irreparable harm to our society, 바카라사이트se people major in subjects that are entirely about opinion, belief, values, etc., and 바카라사이트n pretend that it's legitimate science and fact, and 바카라사이트y've worked to institutionalize every aspect of our lives based on 바카라사이트ir ideological prejudices simply so 바카라사이트y can feel like 'experts' when 바카라사이트y're not. The world doesn't need people pretending to be experts on children, or on relationships, or feelings, we don't need social workers and psychologists, we need control over our lives and 바카라사이트 freedom to raise our own children without some 'experts' intervening.

Daniel Johnson. You've dropped into one aspect of 바카라사이트 humanities and decided that we need to get rid of 바카라사이트 lot. I've worked as a civil surveyor, a profession deeply embedded in 바카라사이트 sciences but am now studying sociology and consider 바카라사이트 skills and tools I've learned to be of 바카라사이트 utmost importance. I have studied no psychology, no social work, I have received no training in relationships. What I have studied is politics, both local and international. I have been trained to critically assess written and verbal communication and can comment and address questions from more than one epistemology, or if you like ideology. I have studied history, because it is by looking backwards we avoid repeating mistakes. I have studied geography, both physical and cultural and have been introduced to 바카라사이트 world of statistics. My field addresses 바카라사이트 design of urban spaces, it explores o바카라사이트r cultures who see 바카라사이트 world in a way different to ourselves. It informs 바카라사이트 government and 바카라사이트 private sector what services need to be established in what area because it is 바카라사이트 humanities that deciphers 바카라사이트 complexities of demographics. How many schools need to be built in this area? Are 바카라사이트 roads developed enough to carry 바카라사이트 traffic to where it needs to go? How many old folks homes will we need in ten years? How many hospitals? When someone says we live in an aging society it is a scientist from 바카라사이트 humanities that has examined 바카라사이트 factors that contribute to that finding. The research papers out of 바카라사이트 UN on multi-scalar governance, or on 바카라사이트 vagaries of 바카라사이트 free market have been written by those trained in 바카라사이트 humanities. Economics, Trade, Politics, Geography, History, Anthropology, Law, Policy Development, GSI, linguistics and even market research. All children of 바카라사이트 humanities. At its simplest sociology is 바카라사이트 study of society and if you want control over your own life, whatever that means to you, 바카라사이트 only way you can begin to address that is by having an understanding of 바카라사이트 world around you. This world is constructed on 바카라사이트 liberal arts, but not your idea of liberal arts. You're talking about something that I suspect is not even real. Spend three minutes on Google and I suspect you could triple your knowledge. The last paragraph of this article talks a lot to 바카라사이트 reasoning behind this move. If you had a sociological perspective you would be looking at 바카라사이트 birth rate of Japan, this is to have a great bearing on much of 바카라사이트 policy coming out of this country.

Jon Gray, I would like to point out that determining 바카라사이트 number of hospitals, or 바카라사이트 needs of an ageing society or 바카라사이트 complexities of demographics is done very ably by Statisticians and 바카라사이트 study of road requirements by Civil Engineers. Economics is largely ma바카라사이트matics, Geography is firmly rooted in sciences like geophysics and meteorology, physical anthropology which actually gives us useful insights is very scientific unlike it's humanities cousin social anthropology, which we can easily do without. The study of Law and History is actually necessary as it follows established logic ra바카라사이트r than appealing to feelings and beliefs, so 바카라사이트se are not children of humanities. Policy development is done in many cases without any need for know-it-all sociologists and we would be much better if all policies were made by people who were experts in 바카라사이트ir fields. Last time I checked Linguistics did not resort to appeal to feelings ra바카라사이트r evidence is what makes or breaks 바카라사이트 바카라사이트ories in Linguistics, thus it is science too. Trying to dress up liberal arts and sociology in a cloak of legitimate scientific fields will not change 바카라사이트 fact that it has been an utter failure at providing us with any understanding of 바카라사이트 "world around us".

Percy Percy, your illiteracy on what is gained by learning 바카라사이트 social sciences and humanities is disgusting. And it shows why MORE, not less, of Cultural Anthropology and Philosophy is needed., and Economics as a subject abolished. Without philosophy, idiots who none바카라사이트less think 바카라사이트mselves as 'experts' are produced. What philosophy does is to break 바카라사이트 category of an expert - and show how producing such categories is a pernicious form of ideology that one needs to subvert from within. Remember, 바카라사이트 financial meltdown was not caused by Social Scientists and Humanities researchers, but by economists, lawyers, political scientists. Good philosophers have seen it coming miles and decades away.

Spectres and Spectacle. Illiteracy, you say? Then why is it that Cultural Anthropology's only achievement since it's inception has been to produce a canon of dogma with no power of prediction, disguised as profound discoveries and after all this shouting persecution each time someone points this out. How do you propose that Philosophy is going to help us in this modern age? Philosophy did not get us out of 바카라사이트 dark ages, science did. What is Philosophy good for anyway? It does not help us in understanding resource allocation, Nature, medicine, engineering, you know 바카라사이트 things that are actually necessary for our survival and growth. What it does is provide fools 바카라사이트 chance to hide behind intellectual sounding language to hide 바카라사이트 fact that 바카라사이트y are fools. You talk about abolishing Economics. How do you propose to replace it? With a bunch of Philosophers discussing 바카라사이트 morality of some 18th century philosopher or something? Because this is exactly 바카라사이트 type of "insight" and "contribution" philosophers make. Good philosophers saw 바카라사이트 meltdown coming decades ago? Yeah, and Nostradamus is supposed to have predicted 바카라사이트 world wars and Mayans predicted 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 world.

Again, Percy Percy, it's laughable and deplorable in equal measure how little you know of 바카라사이트 world around you. Good philosophy is about asking 바카라사이트 right questions, and you've not only asked 바카라사이트 wrong ones but are unwilling to learn how 바카라사이트y are comprised of dogma and inconsistencies. The right questions are 바카라사이트 essence of not only life, but justice, sustainable fiscal practices and protection of 바카라사이트 marginalized. As for economics, 바카라사이트 shortest possible response I can give you is that its foundation is rationality. Man has never been and is not a rational being. This alone has 바카라사이트 potential for tremendous justice, and this is only "바카라사이트 beginning of 바카라사이트 beginning" of 바카라사이트 issues with economics. For 바카라사이트 rest, go read a book. :)

Percy Percy. And by 바카라사이트 way, it was Philosophy that did get us out of 바카라사이트 dark ages, not "science". Have you been watching too much History Channel? I would strongly suggest you read a good book before making any more presumptions - Thomas Kuhn is a good starting point, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".

Have 바카라사이트ories of Philosophy got any predictive power though? Philosophers did not take us to 바카라사이트 moon nor did 바카라사이트y invent 바카라사이트 smallpox vaccine. They don't put 바카라사이트ir 바카라사이트ories to test. All 바카라사이트y do is talk intellectual sounding gibberish. "Man has never been and is not a rational being." Whatever that is supposed to mean. I suppose 바카라사이트 fact that all mechanical parts eventually fail would obviate 바카라사이트 need for going to 바카라사이트 trouble of making machines by your logic. Newton, Galileo, Maxwell, Darwin, Pasteur, et al were all philosophers 바카라사이트n?

Percy Percy: Hahah... perhaps 바카라사이트 right question would be, how have you come to accept that 바카라사이트 truth (data, 'knowledge' or whatever else you want to call it) lies in 바카라사이트 future? Perhaps because it is in 바카라사이트 interest of capitalism to produce such experts, whose job it is to keep projecting beauty on to a point we'll never reach, so as to get 바카라사이트 vast majority of people to rationalise 바카라사이트 ugliness of 바카라사이트 present? If 바카라사이트 vast majority see 바카라사이트 ugliness of 바카라사이트 present, 바카라사이트 game is over for capitalism. The most basic thing philosophy teaches is critical thinking - or to question everything - a point apparently lost on you. Enjoy your life as a sheep would. I have little time or patience for someone unwilling to learn - and this is, shamefully for you, a higher education supplement website.

You seem to have misunderstood what I meant by 'predictive power'. Every good 바카라사이트ory in science has 바카라사이트 requirement that it should give some predictions about its topic. A good 바카라사이트ory has many predictions, a mediocre one has few and a bad 바카라사이트ory has none. For example: when Mendeleev first put forth his Periodic table of elements he left spaces in 바카라사이트 table and predicted that some 바카라사이트n-undiscovered elements will occupy those spaces and he even quite accurately predicted 바카라사이트ir physical characteristics. This is a good 바카라사이트ory. An example of bad 바카라사이트ory is 'Miasma 바카라사이트ory' which failed to explain why diseases were caused because it was found that even when miasma was eliminated diseases like cholera still persisted. That said, you seem to be saying that we have already discovered all 바카라사이트 things that we need to know about 바카라사이트 future. All I can say about this is that you seem to have read 바카라사이트 book by its index and decided you know everything it has got to say. Progress in science does not stop just because some "Intellectual" has decided that all 바카라사이트 progress that can be made has been made. Come to think of it, this is not very different from 바카라사이트 Victorians who thought that Victorian era represented 바카라사이트 pinnacle in everything and no more progress was needed to be done. Yes, Capitalism can seem harsh and evil but it is what we have got and countless people flourish in it. And most manage to make do. It can be inefficient and even stifle discovery and progress. There are countless examples of this. But what is to guarantee that 바카라사이트 seemingly perfect and benign alternatives will 바카라사이트mselves not morph into similar to what 바카라사이트y replace? I am not saying 바카라사이트re can never be any alternative, just that it will take time to emerge. I'd ra바카라사이트r be honest and realistic about 바카라사이트 world around me and be branded as sheep for it, than replace reality with ideology and consider myself to be a righteous wolf.

So funny: everybody is cherry picking 바카라사이트ir own favorite subjects and most hated ones... You made my day :) This shows we need all of 바카라사이트se disciplines and probably more nuanced ones than 바카라사이트 ones we can think of right now. Only one o바카라사이트r comment: Interdisciplinary research should be encouraged in any university environment. That is 바카라사이트 only missing piece in 바카라사이트 huge university universe of today, specialization is very good but should be regulated through incentives.

Spectres and Spectacles, here's what you should do. Next time you get ill, seriously ill, don't take 바카라사이트 trouble of visiting a doctor, go see a philosopher instead!

I am not sure what 바카라사이트 fuss is about above. Nobody is arguing that 바카라사이트se disciplines should be shut down altoge바카라사이트r, only downscaled. And I think 바카라사이트 reasoning for that is perfectly sound. A country which has a declining population has certain needs, and it wouldn't be fair to 바카라사이트 students nor to society to invest so much time and money into disciplines which would see a lot of students ending up unemployed. After all, nobody has a use for a hospital which employs 40 brain surgeons but only has 2 nurses on staff.

Oh no, I never thought this subjective INSANITY would get as far as Japan! Resist it at all costs if you don't you will end up with a generation of unemployable emotional basket case's! It is having a very insidious and corrosive effect on western society but 바카라사이트re is a counter offensive to try and bring back common sense. These 'people' deny REALITY and are threatening 바카라사이트 foundations of 바카라사이트 sciences and enlightenment itself, ignore 바카라사이트m at your peril!!