March 6, 2012 at 12:47 pm
If all the students who slept in CC106 were laid out on the ground, end to end…
March 6, 2012 at 12:35 pm
Well, that’s Philosophy I’ve read, / And Law and Medicine, and I fear / Theology, too, from A to Z; / Hard studies all, that have cost me dear. / And so I sit, poor silly man / No wiser now than when I began. [Habe nun, ach! Philosophie, / Juristerey und Medicin, / Und [...]
February 28, 2012 at 12:52 pm
The human brain is an amazing device. Every day, without fail, it starts right up, working away at full speed the moment you wake up in the morning…
February 23, 2012 at 5:50 pm
During his introduction this morning of Prof. Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis before her lecture to the students of CC102 on the arts of Asia, Prof. Eckel made reference to The Long Search, a famous 1977 BBC series on the religious philosophies of the world. Specifically, he mentioned the scene in Volume 9 (“Japan: The Land of [...]
February 22, 2012 at 10:33 am
In lieu of the Tuesday lecture lost this week to the Monday substitution schedule, a special roundtable at the BU Castle has been arranged for students of CC202. Prof. Roye Wates, Prof. Peter Schwartz and Prof. Christopher Ricks will be speaking about different aspects of the Faust tradition. The event will begin at 7 PM, [...]
February 17, 2012 at 12:32 pm
Professor Daniel Hudon (Core Natural Sciences) writes… What’s the best kind of conversation to have, with those who share your views or those who don’t? If you want to have anything beyond a mutually agreeing chat, then you’re going to want to seek out interlocutors who don’t share your views because they’re the ones who [...]
February 9, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Get a jump on all you Valentine’s Day festivities by joining us for a Core Student/Faculty Reception in the Core Office from 3 to 5 PM tomorrow (Friday) afternoon. We will explore and rank exceptional cookies and pastries from around the Boston area, with special emphasis on our own neighborhood in Boston and Brookline. This [...]
February 8, 2012 at 1:32 pm
Erin McDonagh (Core ’08, CAS ’10), a member of the EnCore steering committee, writes: In this article by Carlos Fraenkel of Boston Review, we learn that Brazil’s public education policy has surprising stipulation: According to a 2008 law, students are required to study philosophy for three years in high school. The law is a political [...]
January 30, 2012 at 11:35 am
As many of you know every year Core and Classics does an informal but wild Aristophanes play, with students and faculty joining in. The time has come once more to think of Aristophanes, candy-throwing, and phallic processions. We will be having a preliminary meeting for anyone interested in being part of the show this Wednesday, [...]
January 18, 2012 at 4:42 pm
As was mentioned yesterday in lecture, CC102 students have the chance to start the semester in by visiting a truly spectacular exhibit about “Pompeii,” now being shown in Boston’s Museum of Science. The exhibit shows a perfectly preserved slice of life as it was lived in Italy in AD 79, frozen in time by the [...]
