Category: Ethics
We’re excited that you’ve joined the conversation! At HMU, we want to continue the great authors’ conversations in a contemporary context, and this blog will help us do that. We look back to Aristotle and the early philosophers who used reason and discourse to gain wisdom and now we endeavor to do the same every day.
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September 8, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. If it’s been awhile since you have read Machiavelli’s The Prince, you might consider reading an excerpt with us this fall. We will examine two chapters of it in the October Quarterly Discussion. (Reach out to Alissa at as****@hm*.edu for more information). I …
May 13, 2022 Thanks to 2022 Fellow in Ideas, David Yamada, for today’s post. Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz As the humanities and social sciences face core threats fueled by higher education budget cuts and political divisions, they are conventionally defended on vocational and practical grounds. The …
December 10, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Recently I attended a webinar hosted by Middlebury College on the subject of data literacy. This webinar was part of a program called Middlebury Initiative for Data and Digital Methods (or Midd:data for short) and functioned as an introduction to the importance of …
November 5, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “If you tear a plant out of the ground, more than its roots come up.” – William James Today’s blog takes a peek at William James. Most of the following quotes come from The Pluralistic Universe, but a few are from other works …
July 23, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Harrison Middleton University’s July Quarterly Discussion revolved around ideas of justice. We focused on two pieces of literature, one excerpt from Thucydides and the other a letter written by Simón Bolívar. Both pieces introduce ideas of justice which deserve a second look in …
February 19, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Bearing witness is of primary importance in Raoul Peck’s documentary I am Not Your Negro. Using unfinished manuscripts by James Baldwin (which Baldwin had titled Remember This House), the film is separated into the following sections: “Paying My Dues,” “Heroes,” “Witness,” “Purity,” “Selling …
February 5, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “Joy, in part, is the justice we give ourselves.” – Dr. Drew Lanham This post is about the love of being. Also, the love of birds. After listening to Krista Tippett (of OnBeing) interview Dr. Drew Lanham, ornithologist, writer, and Wildlife Biologist at …
January 29, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “It is not easy to realize the serene joy of all the earth, when she commences to shine unobstructedly, unless you have often been abroad alone in moonlight nights.” – Henry David Thoreau Discussions this month focused on Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Night …
