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This is the question Jay McInerney addresses in his novel, “The Good Life.” The answer he seeks—the novel’s perplexing moral core??lies at the end of an exploration of individual human responses to the tragedy that shattered thousands of lives and transformed a nation...
...this idea of a “human core?? that first drew Theron to the complex character of Aeon Flux, whom Theron says she deems a “very different kind of a female superhero.” While the character is a crime-fighter attempting to restore order and combat injustice in the future, Theron notes that she “sometimes did not think of this as a futuristic film at all,” and that the character “was very real” to her. Flux is “constantly?...
...first sentence of the Report of the Committee on General Education appears to concur, noting that “a responsible education must help students develop their capacities for reasoning and for responsible judgment.” Though espousing these ideals, the report nevertheless fails to preserve perhaps the Core??s greatest virtue—a required component in morality and ethics. Without such a requirement, the report, despite its best intentions, threatens to push the University in the direction of a value-free shopping mall. We’re all happy to see the Core...
...while simultaneously emphasizing flexibility in course selection above all else. A common refrain from critics of the Core has been that Harvard students can fulfill distribution requirements by taking very specific classes (a class on the Cuban Revolution 1956-1971, for instance, satisfies a Historical Studies B requirement). The Core??s approach is rooted in the philosophy that general education should be about learning “methods” rather than absorbing a body of knowledge. The committee’s proposals address the shortcomings of the Core in two ways. First, the committee recommends...
...report writes that the Core??s current requirements “lack a compelling educational rationale” for the restrictions placed on students. It describes a need for a dramatic shift in general education away from the specificity that has troubled the Core in recent years...