I know that for many students entering college right now or already in college, choosing to focus on humanities subjects over, say business; accounting, computers, or something more "marketable" is not a popular choice because it does not lead toward a specific career that earns high pay. But I would argue that while studying humanities does not in fact prepare one to succeed in any one career, it prepares one to succeed optimally in any career, by being able to think critically and solve problems from a rational and humanistic perspective.
My academic interests and aptitudes also include math, science, computers, foreign languages and cultural studies. In truth I have no "favorite subject"(i.e., "easiest") because I enjoy and value all. Still, if I had to "imagine" myself, undergraduate and perhaps advanced degree(s) in hand in eight to ten years, I see my future self as a scientist; mathematician; or engineer; that is, by training a researcher and/or designer, but by overall education and inclination a humanist. I feel it is this particular combination of training, education, and personal traits that allows one to make the most positive...
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Guilt and its limits as a positive force upon the human condition -- two texts grappling with this central issue, from Nietzsche the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo and the Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression by Thomas Szasz From the hectoring Jewish mother to the penitent pilgrim standing in the Christian confessional, to patient upon the psychiatrist's couch, guilt has proved to be a powerful
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