Concept
Bachelor of Arts
Overview
A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated BA or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.
A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three, four, or five years or more, depending on the country and institution.
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During this course of study, part of the three unoccupied months of each year will be spent in public examinations, to test the degree to which the instruction has been assimilated. The pupils will of their own accord continue their esthetic pursuits, even supposing their natural tastes in this direction not to be encouraged as they ought to be.
Auguste Comte, A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life
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To these two modes of occupation, with their distinction of servile and free activities (or "arts") correspond two types of education: the base or mechanical and the liberal or intellectual. Some persons are trained by suitable practical exercises for capacity in doing things, for ability to use the mechanical tools involved in turning out physical commodities and rendering personal service.
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
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British universities have passed through three stages, of which, however, the second is not yet wholly displaced by the third. At first, they were training colleges for the clergy, to whom, in the Middle Ages, learning was almost wholly confined.
Bertrand Russell, Education and the good life
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Philosophers who discussed Bachelor of Arts
- Roger Scruton
- Linda Zagzebski
- Nicholas Wolterstorff
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Nelson Goodman
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Frederick C. Beiser
- Bas van Fraassen
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger
- Ray Brassier
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Joseph Butler
- Gilbert Harman
- Roland Barthes
- Jeremy Waldron
- Tibor Machan
- Thomas Sowell
- Thomas Nagel
- Christine Korsgaard
- B. R. Ambedkar
- A. J. Ayer
- A. C. Grayling
- Frank Cameron Jackson
- Edmund Gettier
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