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#118: How Philosophy Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton

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The Challenges of the Humanities in the 20th Century

The humanities have had to compete with the sciences for money and attention in universities. They've tried to turn themselves into pseudo sciences, so that they suggested that you would study them like a scientist. It's meant that wisdom that was supposed to circulate freely around the nation has become bunched up in some kind of centres. Er in the universities is not doing its job,. meanwhile, we know what happens on t v and down the, down the air waves.

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