Word: moralisms
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...allegedly best, university? The most important thing that I’ve learned here—far more important than the slides I memorized for Literature and Arts B-21, “Images of Alexander the Great” or the critique of utilitarianism I learned in Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice”—also came to me as something of a sudden realization, this one during Russian class as we were reading a short story by Chekhov. The lesson, contained in the text itself, was the simple phrase: “Everything...
...discussing investments in Africa. A humanitarian crisis is occurring on the continent, and a group that advises the Harvard Corporation must decide whether divesting from corporations with ties to repressive governments in Africa does more harm than good. The students hope to convince Harvard that divestiture is the only moral option...
...general education legislation approved by the Faculty on May 15 outlined the purpose of Harris’s committee. Along with any subcommittees, the standing committee will help recruit faculty to develop new courses and determine which departmental courses will count for general education credit. Harris, who teaches Moral Reasoning 54, “If There Is No God, All Is Permitted,” might seem intellectually suited to lead a committee charged with deciding what is permissible for general education at Harvard. —Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu...
...could mean induction into Phi Beta Kappa, but that it could also mean learning a cultural dance whose name I could barely pronounce for Ghungroo, the South Asian dance show, or working with Undergraduate Council members to bring a student voice to the Curricular Review, or engaging in a Moral Reasoning section discussion on the justification for a living wage. And thus while it may have at first appeared impossible to “do well” at Harvard, it seems I have actually been given many opportunities in which...
...hear that attitude echo now, decades later, when leaders at the National Association of Evangelicals circulate a letter on global warming and "creation care" as a moral imperative, or when megapastor Rick Warren addresses AIDS and poverty as moral issues, and says, when it comes to politics, "I'm not left wing, I'm not right wing, I'm for the whole bird." Warren cites Graham as his mentor; he has absorbed the lessons that reflected Graham's unprecedented and sometimes painful journey through the inner rings of power. There is a reason why, even now as he resides...