Concept
Master of Arts
Overview
The Master of Arts (Latin: Magister Artium or Artium Magister; abbreviated MA or AM) is a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Those admitted to the degree have typically studied subjects within the scope of the humanities and social sciences, such as history, economics, literature, languages, linguistics, public administration, political science, communication studies, law or diplomacy; however, different universities have different conventions and may also offer the degree for fields typically considered within the natural sciences and mathematics. The degree can be conferred in respect of completing courses and passing examinations, research, or a combination of the two.
The degree of Master of Arts traces its origins to the teaching license or Licentia docendi of the University of Paris, designed to produce "masters" who were graduate teachers of their subjects.
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It may be of service here to expand more completely the position which Art thus occupies in its relation respectively to the life of Nature and Spirit. A survey of the entire field of human existence presents to the ordinary consciousness of mankind the widest variety of interests and means of satisfaction. There is, in the first instance, the complex system of purely physical necessities, to the satisfaction of…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
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But though these Socratic schools as a whole rest at saying that the subject itself is end, and reaches its subjective end through the cultivation of its knowledge, the form of determination in them is still the universal, and it is also so that it does not remain abstract, for the development of the determinations of the universal gives real knowledge. The Megarics were most abstract, because they held to the…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
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Having been for some time employed by the postmaster-general of America as his comptroller in regulating several offices, and bringing the officers to account, I was, upon his death in 1753, appointed, jointly with Mr. William Hunter, to succeed him, by a commission from the postmaster-general in England. The American office never had hitherto paid any thing to that of Britain. We were to have six hundred pounds a…
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Names Master of Arts.
Philosophers who discussed Master of Arts
- Linda Zagzebski
- Nicholas Wolterstorff
- Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)
- Georg Henrik von Wright
- Gilles Deleuze
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Bas van Fraassen
- Ray Brassier
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Jean Buridan
- Roland Barthes
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Simone Weil
- Tibor Machan
- Thomas Sowell
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- B. R. Ambedkar
- Bell hooks
- A. C. Grayling
- Noam Chomsky
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- Jean Baudrillard
- Maurice Blanchot
- Roger Bacon
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- University of Cambridge
- Social science
- Theology
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Oxford
- University of Chicago
- Natural science
- Humanities
- Public administration
- McGill University
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Part of A. C. Grayling.