Tag: Conversation
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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August 11, 2023 Thanks to James Robertson, HMU student, for today’s post Learning with Harrison Middleton University offers a number of advantages over more familiar approaches, and prominent among them is freedom, freedom to study at one’s own pace, and in one’s own way. This can be a pleasure, but it is a responsibility. Working …
July 22, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Last week, we discussed C.S. Lewis’s “Meditation in a Toolshed” and the beginning of St. Anselm of Canterbury’s Proslogium. Though different in both tone and purpose, these pieces fit very well together in discussion. Proslogium begins with an explanation of its title, which …
June 26, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Bread is of universal importance. Since nearly every culture has a type of bread used for celebration, ceremony and comfort, today’s blog breaks bread in the form of an invitation for community. Thank you for joining me today. First, I want to share …
April 3, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Most of us had plans that have been interrupted by COVID-19. Medical complications aside, healthy humans still have to deal with time in isolating atmospheres, which can be very difficult. In fact, humans are so social that they will sometimes avoid those restrictions, …
January 3, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. About ten years ago, I read a headline that I will never forget: “The End of Food.” That was it. Just the end of food. Immediately I wondered about things like the apocalypse and end-of-life scenarios. We have been raised in a society …
June 7, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I taught high school fresh out of college. I was so young that people often thought I was a student (which is perhaps also why I was so nervous about being the one in front). Suddenly, after years of watching someone else do …
March 3, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Snapchat offers a fast, easy, image-driven conversation over any smartphone. This twitter-like experience allows you to add a photo, granting new dimensions to the textual content of your words. I find this mix really interesting from the standpoint of communication studies. What are …
January 27, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s blog. “What is the ultimate goal of conversation? It is to produce a meeting of minds.” – Mortimer J. Adler Not all conversation is legitimate, in the terms of Mortimer Adler, founder of the Great Books Foundation. In this 45 minute presentation, he discusses …
