[MD] Value and the Individual

[Platt Holden]

> [Chris]
> >> All this said as one who studies history full time. Worth mentioning.
> 
> [Platt]
> > I can only wonder what history you are studying.
> 
> 
> Quality History. The kind that is the hardest to get, but the most beautiful
> one. Where there is no easy answers, and no models to follow. Free Thinking.
> Free Thinking that has always been the most important thing within the
> faculty of the humanities, and as a member of the board at the Student Union
> of the Faculty of Humanities in Lund, I find it quite funny to see that
> there is a clear dominance of people with more left inspired political
> opinions then others, especially within the fields of history and philosophy
> and anthropology.  From both what I have noticed in the people around me and
> from what others have told me from what their experience, this movement to
> the left very often starts after the students have been studying for a year
> or so within the mentioned areas. This will of course be regarded by you
> only as a measure of the indoctrination and propaganda these educations have
> in them, am I right? Well, as a member of the board at the Student Union of
> the Faculty of Humanities, with the explicit task of working to make sure
> that the education holds as High Quality as possible and is as free from
> political agendas as anything can be, And as someone studying within these
> areas I can say that this is definitely not the case. Neither the course
> literatures or the teachers is allowed to express political agendas, but are
> to keep as "objective" as possible. On these grounds, I find this
> left-dominance that grows into free thinking historians and philosophers to
> indeed be Quality assessments.

Your loyalty to your university is admirable. But as for free-thinking, do 
you find it somewhat "unbalanced" that so many of the faculty are leftists?
Also, do you have data, such as a list of required reading materials, to 
indicate that the rightist view is represented at least as much as the 
leftist view? Finally, is the university financed by the state?

Thanks, Chris. 
Platt