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...best argument in favor of Government 1060 comes from the course's own syllabus: Book VI of Plato's Republic: ¨Those who belong to this small class have tasted how sweet and blessed a possession philosophy is.¨ (¨This small class¨ indeed – 31 undergraduates enrolled in the class this past fall, and 19 undergrads signed up in 2004, when Richard Tuck led the course. By comparison, the average size of a Moral Reasoning core course last year – and Government 1060 now counts for MR credit...
...original spawn was to be called “Philosophical Analysis.” Then—as is the case now—its proposed coursework centered around political philosophy as a basis to answering ethical questions. The readings for the different courses often overlap, with J.S. Mill, Plato, and Aristotle appearing as perpetual syllabus favorites. Expect to write two to three papers, a midterm, and a final (sometimes even a final paper). Lectures can be horribly boring, so your first exercise in reasoning is choosing which course to take.MR’s behemoth...
...found ample room. "Italy," he writes, "is the only workshop in the world that could turn out both Botticellis and Berlusconis." And one into which outsiders enter at their peril. "Your Italy and our Italia are not the same thing," warns the writer. In Botticelli, who strove "to reconcile Plato and Christ in a representation of the beauty that derives from the union of spirit and matter," foreigners only see "flowers, sea and a girl surfing on a seashell. It's a trap. For 500 years, you've been falling into it, and we've been chuckling as we watch...
...students learn alike, not all colleges serve the standard fare of a core curriculum and electives. At St. John's College, which has campuses in Annapolis, Md., and Santa Fe, N.M., students study nothing but the great books, retracing the grand arc of Western thought and literature from Plato and Plutarch in freshman year to Marx and Melville in senior year. Graduates from Alverno, a Roman Catholic college for women in Milwaukee, Wis., earn academic credits and acquire proficiency in the school's "eight abilities," which range from being a good communicator to solving problems well to having an appreciation...
...arson?that has come with the acceptance of a confrontational two-party system means that well-being is lower today than it was under autocracy. That's not surprising: democratization and violence tend to go together. Indeed, the connection between democracy and violence is an ancient one: Thucydides and Plato were the first to put it forward. Iftekhar Sayeed Dhaka...