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...concentration policies benefit us. In fact, it’s because I trust the opinion of the not-so-recently deceased that I think that the rules regarding what students can study have to change. Take Aristotle, for example. In a head to head-to-head match, Aristotle??s educational approach proves more conducive to students’ pursuit of their educational goals than that of the Harvard Registrar’s Office...
Restrictions on combining certain fields with others should also be removed. For example, the art of household management, Aristotle??s version of economics, is studied as an integral part of quite a few disciplines; in fact, “all other pursuits that involve the acquisition of what is necessary for life.” A broader interdisciplinary approach towards economics couldn’t be found even in Social Analysis...
Most importantly, Aristotle??s notion of school as leisure should remind us that a thesis need not be required in order for us to study what we want. If students’ education, as the FDO rightly notes, ought to answer the question, “What do you want to learn?” then the College should establish concentration policies that give primacy to our answers to this question—not to a thesis or the interrelatedness of the multiple answers we might well give...
Sandel said that the tenets of many philosophers are rumbling underneath contemporary issues. He told the audience that although Aristotle??s ideas of justice seem unfamiliar because they require an assessment of what is just, their applications are recognizable in the questions that society struggles with...
...Reading ‘The Tempest,’ debating Aristotle??s ethics or choreographing a dance are supremely practical activities," he said. "They provide the experiences of beauty and shared meaning which are central to building a more just world...