College Considerations on Philosophy and 19-year-olds with Michael Murray

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

If we traded college for job training, what would be lost? Why are so many CEOs philosophy majors? What kind of conversations and connections become possible when we insist on core curriculum classes?

We’re kicking off the spring semester of Live From College in which Kelly and Tammy road trip to campuses across the country asking What’s the point of a liberal arts education in 2023?

Special thanks to The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations for supporting this series.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders, I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I'm wondering what happens
0:14.0	when young developing minds encounter philosophy.
0:18.2	My guest is a former professor from Franklin and Marshall.
0:21.5	His name is Dr. Michael Murray and he, like so many wonderful people I know, has had a
0:25.9	life shaped by studying philosophers and practicing philosophical debate.
0:31.7	He also has some spectacular observations about the value of a liberal arts education
0:36.2	in 2023, which is the underlying question of a series we've been doing called live
0:41.5	from college.
0:43.1	Dr. Michael Murray is currently the president and CEO of the Arthur Vining Davis foundations
0:47.5	and one of the clearest, most compassionate thinkers I know.
0:52.3	So join us, we'll be right back with Michael Murray and Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
1:10.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders, I'm Kelly Corrigan and today we're kicking off the spring
1:14.0	semester of our live from college series.
1:17.2	Tammy and I hit the road again on our quest to find and answer to the question, what is
1:21.6	the value of a liberal arts education, circa 2023?
1:26.8	My guest today, Dr. Michael Murray is one of my all time favorite thought partners.
1:31.1	He's been on our show before as part of the belief series.
1:34.1	He's a former educator who taught college philosophy for 20 years at schools like Franklin
1:39.5	and Marshall, Notre Dame and Oxford and he has some clear eye thoughts about the value
1:45.6	of a liberal arts education, not just for the students, but for all of us.
1:50.4	Before we get into my conversation with Michael, I'd like to share some voicemails we got
1:54.7	from listeners.
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