PrideampPoise Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Exactly, unlike Math, for example, there is no "right" answer. Studying liberal arts is more a matter of learning about what's out there and coming up with your own ways of developing and applying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnifeHand Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 One of my professors has a doctorate in a single verse of the Bible - 2 Corinthians something or other. Pretty amazing that you can research, analyze, and get a doctorate on one sentence. I think the martial arts philosophy one would be sweet. I'd like to know what universities offer it. "Please do not drop your partner like a sack of potatoes. If anything, throw them hard with control." - my instructor"Your karate is still useless." - my brother as he picks himself up off the floor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorin Ryuu Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 It may be a case where they got a degree in philosophy, only they wrote their dissertation on martial arts philosophy. Martial Arts Blog:http://bujutsublogger.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fangshi Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 I have heard of educational degrees in martial arts before . Mostly in asia.here is one . Some are phylosophy and others are more spots or human kenetic . There are "physical education universities in many asian cities . Here is the link for one that I found .http://www.bupe.edu.cn/jgsz/htm/xzbm/wsc/htm/wsc_lbww.html We are not so much individual beings as individual points of perception within one immense being. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtstiachi Posted April 8, 2005 Author Share Posted April 8, 2005 Hey gang.I just returned from campus and here is the info:My Grandmaster has a Doctor of Martial art Philosophy from American Martial Art University.Wanna find it? Google it =)Later "The journey of a 1,000 miles starts with but a single step." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeding Lion Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 heres my educated guess:they probably just teach you how to defend opinions, construct them, further them, apply them and criticize them. just like regular philosophy but with a MA twist.of course no philosophy can be proven absolutely right. everybody has a philosophy. it just that you would look bad if you couldnt even elaborate it properly or defend its legitimacy. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence thus, is not an act, but a habit. --- Aristotle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorin Ryuu Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 Hey gang.I just returned from campus and here is the info:My Grandmaster has a Doctor of Martial art Philosophy from American Martial Art University.Wanna find it? Google it =)LaterI googled it, and only found it being quoted as sources of B.S., M.S. or Ph. D.'s in Martial Arts on sites of dubious reliability. I haven't been able to find any other information on it (where it is, address, phone number, etc.). Can you help me on this? Martial Arts Blog:http://bujutsublogger.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krunchyfrogg Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 I agree w/ SR. Something smells a little fishy about a doctorate degree in Martial Arts Philosophy from a school called American Martial Art University. "A life is not important, except in the impact it has on other lives."-- Jackie Robinson"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."-- Edmund Burke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senseipaul Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 from what i read of it, (givin that i never found an actual site) it is to certify you as an instructor. i do not need a degree to do what i have been doing and have been trained to do for the past 12 years. if i am wrong, and there is really a credited college or university in which offers a martial arts degree of any kind, please post a link or contact information. thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Jules Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 Im not sayin that it smells fishy, like Krunchy said, but it does seem a little weird.....For one thing, as I asked before, when you submit your thesis, WHOM do you submit it to ?......yeah yeah....I know....the professor teaching the class......not what I mean......Im talking about .....what are the professor's qualifications to grade a paper on the philosophy of martial arts?????? Furthermore...being that there are SO many different styles of martial art, each with its own type of "philosophy" , from which school of thought does this professor derive his knowledge base ???? And being that there are all types of "philosophys" what if the professor has his/her knowledge base in a "philosophy" which differs from the one which a student has chosen as his/her field of study ???? On the mat, so to speak, a genuine master of ...lets say....TKD....should be able to assess a student of Goju Ryu, for example, and determine if the Goju practicioner is making a proper fist, or if his/her deep stance is correct, despite the fact that TKD and Goju Ryu are clearly not the same "style". In psychology, for example, the two main schools of thought are Freud and Jung....VERY different in their "philosophies"......I wouldnt feel so comfortable submiting a paper based on the Freudian school of thought to a Jungian based professor.......I dunno.....now that I think about it.....KrunchyFrogg.....it does smell a lil fishy.....but thats just my philosophy ~Master Jules......aka "The Sandman""I may be a trained killer......but Im really a nice guy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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