There Is No Case For The Humanities, By Justin Stover

Higher Education is recent years has been questioned whether it is worth the cost. This same questioning is used to justify the claim that there is no case for the humanities. The humanities being the learning or literature concerned with human culture, especially literature, history, art, music, and philosophy. In the article, The Is No Case for the Humanities, And Deep Down We Know Our Justifications for it are Hollow the author, Justin Stover argues that there is no good argument for keeping the humanities expect that the humanities need no justification for existence. Both sides of the political spectrum has arguments for and against the humanities. When arguing for pro humanities, the left and liberal side are bad at coming up with a coherent and effective defense. And, the right and conservative side put forward a strong and coherent defense, but do not confront actual attacks on the humanities. Stover argues that since there is no transideological apology that both sides of the political spectrum have indirectly made the advisories against the humanities. The conservatives who are against the humanities, argue that humanities is a way of indoctrinating student into liberal thinking. The liberals and

The reason behind why humanities are they way they are is that the humanities would bring students above the categories of nation, vocation, and time to become members of a class constrained by no such boundaries. In addition, Stover writes that the presence of the humanities in universities allows the modern university to think better of themselves and strive to be above commercial and political vulgarity. Stover then suggests in his concluding statements that it is not the humanities that society has lost faith in, but the economic, political, and social order that the humanities have been made to