Word: oughtness
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...designed especially to unite the study of social facts with an examination of the standards and ideals by which these facts are to be judged. It is assumed that there are two equally legitimate questions which may be asked about society. First, what is society? and second, what ought society to be? The first question is descriptive, analytical and historical. The second is the question which Aristotle formulated when he said, "He who would duly enquire about the best form of a state ought first to determine which is the most eligible life". It is not intended that either...
...same discretion. The clear vote against changing the fee to mandatory implies that the student body values its ability to choose to support council activities. A two-check box system will ensure that all students must consciously decide to support the council, and the mechanism for making that choice ought to be made clearer on the termbill itself...
...convince students to vote yes on the referendum, the council employed ads with the slogan: “Do you believe in a better Harvard?” But instead of asking students that question, the council ought to be answering those students who ask, “How is the council going to make Harvard better?” Instead of vague generalities, the council should start making promises. More students will be inspired to pay $75 on next year’s termbill for an Outkast concert and weekend buses to New York than will...
...details surrounding the Harvard College Courses, which have been proposed as alternatives in a framework of broader distributional requirements, are uncomfortably unclear. Instead of drawing on traditional introductory-level courses in the different disciplines, Harvard College Courses ought to combine substantive knowledge with the big academic questions in a compelling way that competes with—rather than dumbs down—departmental offerings. These new courses should attempt to provide students with intriguing and provocative interdisciplinary, issue-based and integrative courses that do not fit within existing departments. By doing so, they will allow students to gain insight into...
...this fashion will set them apart from both traditional departmental (and hierarchical) courses as well as those courses which were created under the impossibly vague (and rigid) backbone of the Core’s “approaches to knowledge.” Harvard College Courses in the sciences ought to repair that hole in the curriculum—which the Core never managed to fill—reserved for courses that challenge and examine the techniques, assumptions and methods in the sciences...