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Lewis contrasted the Core Curriculum—introduced in the 1970s in part to introduce students to other cultures—with the Red Book, saying the Core “had no particular motivating philosophy?? other than to cultivate the importance of learning in general...
...Introduction to Philosophy?? has drawn the fourth-most students. McGee, who has handled Summer School data since the 1980s, said that she could not recall a philosophy course ever finishing among the 10 most popular courses...
...films feed the soul far more than they do the mind. Spielberg is not, in the end, a director who pays inordinate attention to a film’s characterizations, pace or intelligence; he will take an awe-inspiring visual over a smart line any day. At this philosophy??s extreme—the climactic Close Encounters of the Third Kind setpiece, for example—he lets the visuals overpower the story, paradoxically creating a numingly ponderous work that actually robs the soul of sustenance...
...resolve this exigency, O’Reilly proposes a move beyond theory and philosophy??beyond art as a lens for social scrutiny. He proposes a return to a simpler aesthetic that values beauty above all and doesn’t concern itself with deeper remarks about the world. “I’ve chosen,” O’Reilly says, “to move beyond the cerebral and look at the beautiful.” He cites as his artistic influences Vermeer, de Hooch, Clasez and Monet. And indeed, his photographs recall both...
These observations in turn mold educational philosophy??and more importantly for Harvard, probably Summers’ philosophy...