Analects of the Core: Hawthorne on the burden of the past
Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and...
View ArticleAnalects of the Core: Emerson on the Parthenon as a gem
Earth proudly wears the Parthenon as the best gem among her zone. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
View ArticleAnalects of the Core: Fry on Homer’s genius
Stephen Fry’s BBC mini-series “Fry’s Planet Word” discusses The Odyssey: “Homer’s genius was to create vivid, archetypal scenes that transcended time and place. The Sirens episode is only a few...
View ArticleAnalects of the Core: Goethe on Faust’s studies
Well, that’s Philosophy I’ve read, / And Law and Medicine, and I fear / Theology, too, from A to Z; / Hard studies all, that have cost me dear. / And so I sit, poor silly man / No wiser now than when I...
View ArticleAnalects of the Core: Hobbes on the Good
From Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan: Aristotle and other heathen philosophers define good and evil by the appetite of men; and well enough, as long as we consider them governed every one by his own law. For...
View ArticleAnalects of the Core: Engels on revolution
But the anti-authoritarians demand that the authoritarian political state be abolished at one stroke, even before the social conditions that gave birth to it have been destroyed. They demand that the...
View ArticleAnalects of the Core: Montaigne on fear
The Core wishes students and faculty a very fruitful and enjoyable New Year and semester, and welcomes everyone back to the trials and tribulations of intellectual life. To boost students’ courage for...
View ArticleAnalects of the Core: Darwin on the confidence of the ignorant
Today’s analect was inspired by Core alumni Tim Martinez (Core ’07-’09, CAS ’11) with reference to the study of Evolution and Society occurring in CC203, which Tim marks as one of his favorite courses...
View ArticleAnalects of the Core: Tocqueville on complacent legislators
Today’s analect relates to CC203′s study of the foundation of social sciences: Propitious circumstances and good laws might succeed in drawing to the legislature of a democratic people men very...
View ArticleFrom the Core Journal: “The Analects of Prof. Nelson”
These “Analects of Professor Nelson” were recorded during class discussion by Core student Matthew Spencer, and published in The Journal of the Core Curriculum, Vol. IX, Spring 2000: The Professor said...
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