It has always seemed to me that the excitement of the humanities comes in the small details and odd combinations and permutations of particulars, not in the "Big Picture" that we've supposedly abandoned at modern universities. So I was delighted to see this offbeat combination of Western and Eastern traditions, with the Meaning of Life defined as "to keep alive what we are doing".
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Multiculturalism and the Meaning of Life
It has always seemed to me that the excitement of the humanities comes in the small details and odd combinations and permutations of particulars, not in the "Big Picture" that we've supposedly abandoned at modern universities. So I was delighted to see this offbeat combination of Western and Eastern traditions, with the Meaning of Life defined as "to keep alive what we are doing".
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