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...Courses in this category will leave students able to analyze “primary texts and/or works of art…in the context of a theoretical framework.” This is, of course, highly distinct from courses to be offered in the “Culture and Belief?? category, which will impart an ability to analyze “primary texts and/or works of art…in light of their historical, social, economic and/or cross-cultural conditions of production and reception.” Detractors may claim that the distinction will be easily?...
...Force on General Education’s proposal now requires two courses that address the humanities. A new category on “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding” would teach students how to interpret works of art and literature, while a category called “Culture and Belief?? would place those works in a social context...
...process of evolution, and sees them living in the only one true world, the natural world. The greatest goal for a humanist is the pursuit of dignity, and of ethical excellence.” Although Epstein articulates tenets of Humanism with practiced aplomb, his path to the belief??not religion, please—was hardly linear. He was raised in the Reform Jewish tradition but studied Chinese and Religion at the University of Michigan, intending to become a Buddihist or Taoist monk. Then he discovered “Humanistic Judaism,” a movement which combines Jewish...
...prevents any substantive dialogue about why people resort to terrorism. No matter the extent to which we may agree that terrorism is wrong, it is simply insufficient to argue that terrorists become terrorists because they are evil. You may believe that—and your policies certainly reflect that belief??but in terms of making the world a safer place, that belief leads only toward the escalation of violence...
...Mingwei’s hope—and his belief??that the Harvard seer will be a human mirror that reflects the participant’s existence back to himself. He says that the “backbone of Buddhism,” if not of all religions, is the question “Who is the self? Who is the self asking this question?” His 1999 “Reflections,” at Wellesley College’s Davis Museum, can be seen as a sort of intellectual precursor to the Seers Project...