{"id":4697,"date":"2004-12-12T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-12T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transactions.nast.ph\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2025-01-08T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T02:05:15","slug":"the-humanities-in-our-intellectual-and-cultural-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transactions.nast.ph\/?p=4697","title":{"rendered":"The Humanities in Our Intellectual and Cultural Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jose Y. Dalisay, Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forty-five years after C.P. Snow’s famous and contentious lecture at Cambridge on “The Two Cultures,” of the humanists and scientists, we continue to suffer, not so much from this dichotomy in our ways of thinking, but rather from their shared subservience in this country to a third “culture,” the culture of politics, of base survival and self-interest from the lowest to the highest levels of our government and society. If our critical faculties were truly at work, the Filipino humanist should have no trouble concluding that the way forward\u2014culturally and economically\u2014can only be led by a greater awareness and application of science in our national life, especially in our education. But rational decisions like this are held back by the supervening claims of politics, which are neither humanist nor scientific, and by a na\u00efve and retrograde conception of science and humanities as options\u2014mutual exclusivity, and bordering on frivolous\u2014rather than imperatives. The humanities, in particular, are often taken for a little more than entertainment, a belletristic indulgence devoid of rigor and practical significance. The question to ask should really not be where the humanities might be located in our intellectual and cultural life\u2014something for which I suspect we already know the answers\u2014but rather where intellect and culture belong in our national consciousness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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