September 1, 2012 at 5:56 pm
… the art for the invitation to the sophomore Core Banquet from 1997. Are there any alumni who remember this event?
August 16, 2012 at 5:46 pm
Postmarked August 1, from Cambodia — Phnom Penh is amazing! So much to see and do and Cambodians are incredibly friendly! I hope all is well at the Core office! – Abby Simon, Core ’06, CAS ’09
August 1, 2012 at 9:51 am
But the anti-authoritarians demand that the authoritarian political state be abolished at one stroke, even before the social conditions that gave birth to it have been destroyed. They demand that the first act of the social revolution shall be the abolition of authority. Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the […]
From Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan: Aristotle and other heathen philosophers define good and evil by the appetite of men; and well enough, as long as we consider them governed every one by his own law. For int eh condition of me that have no other law but their own appetites, there can be no general rule […]
Alumnus Michelle Kwock occupies a summer afternoon reading What’s Wrong With Democracy by Core Humanities lecturer, and chair of the Classics department, Prof. Jay Samons. Would you care to be a featured Core Reader here on the Core blog? Just send us a photo, by attachment to core@bu.edu, showing you reading a Core or Core-related […]
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 […]
September 19, 2011 at 12:43 pm
LECTURES THIS WEEK CC101: Jennifer Knust on Genesis (9/20) CC105, Tuesday: Tereasa Brainerd on relativity (9/20) CC105, Thursday: Forum — Is the world deterministic? (9/22) CC201: Jodi Cranston on Michelangelo (9/20) CC203: Thomas Barfield on The Muqaddimah (9/22) A reminder to alumni — if you will be in Boston during a scheduled course lecture, and […]
September 13, 2011 at 2:53 pm
Today’s visual Analect is an Assyrian bas relief from the collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, in Brunswick, Maine: “Winged Figured with Embroidered Tunic and Shawl”, from Northwest Palace, Nimrud, Iraq. Gypsum, 90 9/16 x 58 13/16 x 6 7/16″, 883-859 BC. Gift of Dr. Henri B. Haskell M 1855 (1860.2). Students may […]
September 13, 2011 at 1:59 pm
“Genesis starts with ‘In the beginning’; and that is always a great place to start.” “The Bible’s stories, laws, and beliefs decisively influenced the western imagination; biblical heroes became models for kings and commoners, and taught westerners how to act, what to pursue, how to govern and rule.” “The Bible has been many a person’s […]
