January 28, 2013 at 3:18 pm
The Core presents a quote on the death of stars: In the later red giant phase, the Core will shrink further and heat up to over 100 million Kelvin. ~Dr. Mark Jonas
January 25, 2013 at 4:35 pm
The class of CC202 delves into Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Here the Core presents an article looks at that work from another perspective- politics. Here is an excerpt: The Victorians fostered the idea of Austen as the retiring spinster who confined her novels to the small canvas of village life. In more recent times she […]
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Tagged article, CC202, context, history, interesting, Jane Austen, militia, novel, politics, poverty, prejudice, pride, romantic
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January 23, 2013 at 3:08 pm
Relating to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, which is studied this semester by CC 202, is today’s analect: I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I […]
January 17, 2013 at 4:37 pm
Language and Other Abstract Objects was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 1981. It discusses the ideas of Plato studied in CC101. Internalization and externalization also explain why, for Plato, poetry corrupts our psyches. Given our psychology, there are two features of poetry which make it an especially potent drug. First, the music and rhythms […]
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Tagged boundary, CC101, expression, form, imagination, imitation, inside, outside, perform, Plato, poetry
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January 17, 2013 at 4:27 pm
Professor Knust held a lecture in September of 2011, of which the Core is belatedly releasing the concluding minutes. While it related to The Book of Genesis, which is studied in CC101, the Core feels that the questions raised here are important, and relevant to many other works. In the end, I’m not sure what […]
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Tagged ancestors, creation, destruction, explanation, Genesis, God, Knust, lecture, question, reason, understand, why?
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December 7, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Relating to temperance, and the work of John Locke studied in CC203, here is today’s analect: For esteem and reputation being a sort of moral strength, whereby a man is enabled to do, as it were, by an augmented force, that which others, of equal natural parts and natural power, cannot do without it; he […]
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Tagged CC203, harm, importance, Moral, natural, power, strength, temperance, weakness
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