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September 22, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. For me, Aristotle’s Poetics is less about advice for the writer than it is about defining structures. By that, I mean that Aristotle wants us to understand how to produce good art that expresses an important aspect of human nature. He goes so …
July 14, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Following our discussion series “What the Greeks Can Teach Us About AI,” I have become increasingly interested in understanding the uses and reasons for using artificial intelligence (AI). Throughout the series, participants repeated the notion that AI was simply a tool. While I …
August 19, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. By this time of the summer, I am always awash in fruit. I love it…and I hate it. Harvesting your own produce is time sensitive, messy, and exhausting. Yet there is nothing that I love better in this world than homemade peach pie …
July 8, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Happiness is of such importance that the Declaration of Independence uses it as a foundational principle. Considering its importance in my own society, one would think that I thoroughly understand the term. However, it is as slippery today as it has always been. …
Ahab Rages and Odysseus Weeps: Trauma as a Core Concept for Humanistic Inquiry June 24, 2022 Thanks to David C. Yamada, a 2022 Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. The Great Books of the Western World series includes the two-volume Syntopicon, An Index to the Great Ideas, which contains 102 core ideas and accompanying entries …
June 17, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Harrison Middleton University will take a summer recess from June 18 through July 10. Naturally, the notion of recess got me thinking about language itself. According to Merriam-Webster, recess (taken from the Latin recedere, or to recede) means either: the action of receding; …
April 8, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I spent the past few months investigating Artificial Intelligence (AI). Though it resides far outside of my educational background, AI actually affects nearly every field. More importantly, however, is how little understood it is. I have asked numerous people to define it, but …
March 25, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Sometimes, because I love language, I like to make language lists. On a recent walk, I was thinking about the phrase “the whole ball of wax,” which turned into a game of listing phrases that mean everything…. And I quickly realized that we …
December 17, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Schumann’s “Humoreske” Dvorzak’s “Humoresques” Schumann’s “Humoreske” involves all emotions – sometimes more than one at a time. It wonderfully demonstrates humor’s power to draw from all emotions. Likewise, Dvorzak moves from one emotion to the next without pause. Dvorzak’s music has some consistency …
November 12, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Narrative is a tricky word. Originally, I thought that perhaps we had overloaded the term recently, but even the original Latin term carried a number of connotations. Wheelock’s Latin defines narro as “to tell, report, narrate (narration, narrative, narrator).” This makes me wonder …
