Abstract
The future of the liberal arts lies... in addressing the fundamental questions of human existence head on, without embarrassment or fear, taking them from the top down in easily understood language, and progressively rearranging them into domains of inquiry that unite the best of science and the humanities at each level of organization in turn.... I find it hard to conceive of an adequate core curriculum in colleges and universities that avoids the cause-and-effect connections among the great branches of learning - not metaphor, not the usual second-order lucubrations on why scholars of different disciplines think this or that, but material cause and effect. (Wilson, 1998, p.301).
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