Philosophy and psychology cover a lot of those questions. Universities are for research, if you can turn one of those questions in to a valid research question in your respective field (be it psychology, humanitarian studies, computer science or whatever), you can have quite a lot of freedom. Besides, different universities specialise in different subjects.
What the fuck is a university to do with just the question "Where should I go with my life?"? That's a personal question, go ask the local career advisor on that matter. "Where is meaning to be found?" is covered by philosophy.
"[I]How can we change things in this troubled world?[/I]" is too generic and therefore unanswerable. Turn it into a specific question and you'll get a lot further.
Hell, take that last question and search "Change perception" on Google scholar:
[url]https://scholar.google.nl/scholar?hl=en&q=change+perception&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=[/url]
You'll find a ton of papers about changing people's views on certain issues, mostly climate change.
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Here's a bunch of papers and books about the meaning of life:
[url]https://scholar.google.nl/scholar?q=meaning+life&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5[/url]
Spot on FPtje, to get answers in universities you need to formulate your questions right. Universities are not about you, they're about concepts and ideas (at least when it comes to humanitarian subjects)
Faculty of death or anxiety? Like what does he imagine will be going on there? Death is death, there's only so much you can research about it. Death is a subject in bigger topics but by itself it's too specific. Anxiety? That's part of psychology course.
[QUOTE=FPtje;48297457]Philosophy and psychology cover a lot of those questions. Universities are for research, if you can turn one of those questions in to a valid research question in your respective field (be it psychology, humanitarian studies, computer science or whatever), you can have quite a lot of freedom. Besides, different universities specialise in different subjects.
What the fuck is a university to do with just the question "Where should I go with my life?"? That's a personal question, go ask the local career advisor on that matter. "Where is meaning to be found?" is covered by philosophy.
"[I]How can we change things in this troubled world?[/I]" is too generic and therefore unanswerable. Turn it into a specific question and you'll get a lot further.
Hell, take that last question and search "Change perception" on Google scholar:
[url]https://scholar.google.nl/scholar?hl=en&q=change+perception&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=[/url]
You'll find a ton of papers about changing people's views on certain issues, mostly climate change.
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Here's a bunch of papers and books about the meaning of life:
[url]https://scholar.google.nl/scholar?q=meaning+life&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5[/url][/QUOTE]
I don't really agree with the video, universities will always be there for research and spreading knowledge, not just be there to teach you 'how 2 liv gud'. However I really think that universities actually give you answers to those questions, just not literally.
Most universities require you to take at least one philosophy class (at least here in Belgium), just the fact that you are confronted with the issues covered in that class changes the way you view the world. Alongside that, the way you're educated changes your view in similar ways.
Education can really change who you are and what you think should be. It doesn't just improve your knowledge on whatever subject matter you're involved in, it goes beyond that.
University sure did teach me how to socialize and live on my own.
I have a feeling the bloke who made the video didn't actually go to Uni
You go to Uni to qualify you to do useful and specialized stuff in the real world, so you can further contribute to the economy while bettering your own finances thereby giving you, and indirectly your community, a better quality of life.
That's the main premise behind STEM degrees at least in my experience. I cannot speak for humanities students and I often find that people who study History for example don't actually go on to be historians or directly apply their acquired knowledge, so it's a bit different there.
But the main focus is certainly not on personal questions like ~~how can I reconcile my demand for money with my requirement for meaning~~~, and I don't think it's supposed to be. It would be an utter waste of £9k a year if that's all they taught students. As for departments like "centre for anxiety" or "department for relationships", all of that is already provided by all UK Universities through the form of counsellors
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