Word: moralisms
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...Later, with the rise of science, the intellectual program came to revolve around citizenship and manly duty to society and state, but even this identity was lost during the 60s. The inclusion of minorities in the university system made the enforcement of WASP virtues both politically unfeasible and morally unjustifiable. Since then, we have witnessed a kind of moral dispersion. We now value excellence but don’t know what to be excellent...
What must happen now is a revival of moral inquiry in higher education. It must be humble, to be sure, one that does not preach a certain view of the good life but encourages us to search for it. It is not morality I am advocating, but moral inquiry...
This is a task that universities have all but abandoned. Harvard College, under the leadership of Dean Henry Rosovsky in 1978, irresponsibly marginalized moral inquiry to a “moral reasoning” core requirement, fooling itself into thinking that a few months of reading can aid the self-realization of a lifetime. The latest update on the Core similarly ghettoizes moral reasoning into a fixed few courses...
...philosophy is only as good as its application. For example, the report’s citation of Molecular and Cellular Biology 60, “Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature”—which last year could be petitioned to count for the current Moral Reasoning requirement—as an acceptable scientific general education course is dubious at best. In our view, such a course places too much emphasis on the report’s third, less significant, criterion for a Science and Technology general education course—that...
...Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles shrewdly provided a precedent when he bypassed the snail-paced Core Committee in approving the Humanities courses for Core credit. Two of the courses were immediately granted Literature and Arts A status, and one was deemed more suitable to fulfill the Moral Reasoning requirement. Paradoxically again, this dictatorial measure actually enhanced students’ freedom instead of diminishing it. The case of the Humanities portal courses should become the rule. Instead of leaving it up to the Faculty to approve the Core, FAS should appoint a small group of trusted professors?...