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		<title>One Of Us: Discussing Descartes &amp; Animal Consciousness</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/03/25/one-of-us-discussing-descartes-animal-consciousness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating to CC201&#8242;s study of The Renaissance is the essay &#8216;One Of Us&#8217; by John Jeremiah Sullivan on animal consciousness, in which he discusses Descartes&#8217; views on the topic. Here is an extract: Descartes’ term for them [animals] was automata—windup toys, like the Renaissance protorobots he’d seen as a boy in the gardens at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, “hydraulic statues” that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Degrees of Francis Bacon</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/03/19/six-degrees-of-francis-bacon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This project reassembles the Early Modern social network, interweaving many of the personalities studied in CC201: bit.ly/15YyGnM]]></description>
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		<title>The Essay as Reality Television</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/22/the-essay-as-reality-television/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Kirsch discusses whether or not essays are &#8220;extinct&#8221; as a form of writing, and references Michel e Montaigne, whose work is studied in CC201. Here is a sample: The essay, traditionally, was defined by its freedom and its empiricism—qualities that it inherited from its modern inventor, Montaigne. “What do I know?” Montaigne asked, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LANDMARKS SERIES: Machiavelli’s The Prince After 500 Years</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/26/landmarks-series-machiavelli%e2%80%99s-the-prince-after-500-years/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/26/landmarks-series-machiavelli%e2%80%99s-the-prince-after-500-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 6th, there will be a lecture on Machiavelli&#8217;s The Prince, by the great Michael Ignatieff, Edward Muir, and James Johnson. It will be located in the Photonics Building, Room 206, 8 St. Mary&#8217;s Street, and will last from 7:00pm &#8211; 9:00pm. The Core encourages students to attend this event, as these inspiring speakers will undoubtedly shed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #169: Discourse on Method and Meditations</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/11/29/analects-of-the-core-169-discourse-on-method-and-meditations/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/11/29/analects-of-the-core-169-discourse-on-method-and-meditations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating to the reading that the students of CC201 have done on Descartes&#8217; work, here is today&#8217;s analect: Although in approaching the flame I feel heat, and even though in approaching it a little too closely I feel pain, there is still no reason that can convince me that there is some quality in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wainwright sings Sonnet 29</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/11/19/wainwright-sings-sonnet-29/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/11/19/wainwright-sings-sonnet-29/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Ricks lectured last week to the students of CC201 on the sonnets of William Shakespeare. Since he did not have time enough in the short span of the lecture period to grant the students a sung performance of any of the poems, here is a popular American singer Rufus Wainwright with his own musical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #137</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/09/23/analects-of-the-core-137/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=1295</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[La vieille dit à Cunégonde : « Mademoiselle, vous avez soixante et douze quartiers, et pas une obole ; il ne tient qu&#8217;à vous d&#8217;être la femme du plus grand seigneur de l&#8217;Amérique méridionale, qui a une très belle moustache ; est-ce à vous de vous piquer d&#8217;une fidélité à toute épreuve ? Vous avez [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #136</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/09/22/analects-of-the-core-136/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Après le tremblement de terre qui avait détruit les trois quarts de Lisbonne, les sages du pays n&#8217;avaient pas trouvé un moyen plus efficace pour prévenir une ruine totale que de donner au peuple un bel auto-da-fé ; il était décidé par l&#8217;université de Coïmbre que le spectacle de quelques personnes brûlées à petit feu, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Formichelli introducing Corgan on Machiavelli</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/09/21/formichelli-introducing-corgan-on-machiavelli/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/09/21/formichelli-introducing-corgan-on-machiavelli/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday, Prof. Michael Corgan delivered a lecture to the students of CC201: The Renaissance, on the topic of The Prince by Machiavelli. To provide context for his lecture in the intellectual arc of the course, Prof. Jennifer Formichelli introduced Prof. Corgan with the following remarks. Last week Professor Ricks made a salient distinction between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #135</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/09/21/analects-of-the-core-135/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[« Je voudrais savoir lequel est le pire, ou d&#8217;être violée cent fois par des pirates nègres, d&#8217;avoir une fesse coupée, de passer par les baguettes chez les Bulgares, d&#8217;être fouetté et pendu dans un auto-da-fé, d&#8217;être disséqué, de ramer en galère, d&#8217;éprouver enfin toutes les misères par lesquelles nous avons tous passé, ou bien [...]]]></description>
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