Post date: May 3, 2018 8:26:08 PM
I finally got around to writing up remarks presented to the AddRan College of Liberal Arts at Texas Christian University in January 2018. Here's an abstract:
College majors are well chosen in proportion to their return on assets for living well. University education is not about making yourself into a vessel, for use by others, in the way that most enhances your power as a consumer. Instead, university education is about coming to know what makes your life valuable, in a way that most enhances your power to find satisfaction and realize your potential. This is why the liberal arts are valuable: they empower us to live well.
Here's a link to the paper. It's a follow-up to a write-up for a presentation I gave at UAH in 2012, Liberal Arts and the Advantages of Being Useless.