Originally Posted by
Darcy88
So you get nothing from Plato, Descartes, Hume, Mill, and all the other "gossipers?" That's preposterous. Philosophy is no longer what it was, no longer the main avenue of knowledge, but it surely has not died. There's still political philosophy, the philosophy of religion, existentialism, and it goes on, even Platonism, that millenia old school of thought, remains viable to this day.
And you extend your pronouncement to embrace all the humanities. So history too is no longer relevant? Nor the study of literature?
The liberal arts will remain relevant until the sun explodes some billions of years hence.