Sunday's Boston Globe (9/16/07) had a terrific front page Ideas Section article on the loss of human purpose as taught in universities today. It boils down to this: the humanities has been hamstrung since the 1960s from teaching the classics (the Western Canon) and has allowed all issues of spiritual significance to become coopted by religion.
There is no bigger question to ask or to seek the answers to than the issues of why are we here. But philosophy is fading and other humanities courses teach a narrower view of life and its myriad problems.
It finally comes down to this: is religion and its practice and beliefs the only way to be spiritual? If the answer is no, how do we get to a spiritual well-being without studying the bigger questions through voices and viewpoints other than those possessed by the religions?
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- elly jackson
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- I am a Boston, Massachusetts-based Wedding Officiant and Celebrant; I also do free-lance writing, editing, teaching and coaching writers.
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