Tagged: CC102

Salvador Dali: Dante’s Purgatorio

April 17, 2013 at 3:27 pm

Relating to CC102′s study of Dante’s Divine Comedy are illustrations made by Salvador Dali for Purgatorio. Here is a sample: For the full set of images, visit bit.ly/16MKCYi. To view Dali’s illustrations for Inferno, visit bit.ly/10jHp1E, and for Paradiso, visit bit.ly/17vAa9P.

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Salvador Dali: Dante’s Inferno

April 5, 2013 at 11:45 am

Relating to CC102′s study of Dante’s Divine Comedy are illustrations made by Salvador Dali for Inferno. Here is a sample: For the full set of images, visit bit.ly/14TfLgu. To view Dali’s illustrations for Purgatorio, visit bit.ly/17H3fQT, and for Paradiso, visit bit.ly/17vAa9P.

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Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There!

February 26, 2013 at 12:14 pm

The Core Curriculum offers CC102-related intellectual stickers advocating what Buddha would say to Arjuna: Everyone interested can email core@bu.edu or Tweet to Prof. Eckel @taoofcore, to request their own sticker and the Core will mail it to them!

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Applying Confucian Ethics to International Relations

February 21, 2013 at 11:00 am

In view of CC102′s study of the Analects of Confucius, the Core presents an interesting discussion of Confucian ethics when applied to international relations. Here is a sample: Chinese ethics is a deontological system that has a continuity spanning a range from personal to public concerns, without differentiation. A good society, a good state, and [...]

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Spring 2013 Core Mentoring for First-Year Students

January 29, 2013 at 1:12 pm

What will Nate and Gayle, the Core Mentors, be doing this semester? For students in CC102, they will be holding periodic reviews on books that have proven to be particularly challenging for students in the past. These reviews are entirely optional but highly encouraged. They will provide students with another chance to review the material [...]

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The Lego Inferno

May 14, 2012 at 10:53 am

With final papers done and turned in, exams finished, and the semester turning over into the start of the summer break, CC102 students might be feeling a bit like they’ve emerged from the final level of the Inferno — “Procrastinators”?, skipping Purgatory altogether to end up directly in the Paradiso-like environs of summer break. So [...]

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How should Aeneas have dumped Dido?

March 21, 2012 at 11:14 am

According to Prof. Pat Johnson (in yesterday’s CC102 lecture), “any BU undergraduate could have found a better way to dump Dido than Aeneas did in Book IV of the Aeneid“: She was the first to speak and charge Aeneas: “You even hope to keep me in the dark as to this outrage, did you, two-faced [...]

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Tea with two Zen masters

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 [...]

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On Relating Core to Bob Dylan

May 3, 2011 at 10:58 am

As Professor David Roochnick mentioned this morning as part of CC102′s concluding thoughts from the faculty, the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s Chimes of Freedom (here performed by Bruce Springsteen) reflect the themes and ideas covered throughout the first year of core humanities. Lyrics: Far between sundown’s finish an’ midnight’s broken toll We ducked inside the [...]

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Analects of the Core #99

March 11, 2011 at 11:56 am

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. – Often attributed to Confucius [Tertiary research suggests this is derived from 寧可玉碎，不能瓦全, a Chinese proverb meaning roughly "Better be a piece of broken jade than unbroken tile."  Why this quote is often attributed to Confucius is unclear.]

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