“Seeing Differently” workshop launched
A new workshop brings together art and the humanities.
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10, 2019
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09, 2019
The humanities of design thinking (J. Nesteruk and J. W. Martin, Inside Higher Ed)
Cutting-edge approaches in design thinking are enriched by the humanities.
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08, 2018
The Dream of the Humanities
A telling dream about the humanities in our lives.
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07, 2018
Upstream on the Cam
Writing against the current of the present time. A letter from the UK.
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11, 2017
Science meets mythology
Two formative thinkers of the 20th-century consider the force of instinctual aggression.
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10, 2017
Personality in the modern machine age
Personality is a struggle for, and achievement of, inwardness.
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06, 2017
To know the humanities is to know their relevance (Gretchen Busl, The Guardian)
The humanities inform our world even when we do not realize it.
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12, 2016
Learning, language, and moral character
Learning, language, and moral character: to what degree does education, in humanities or the sciences, influence our moral progress? Their own weakness, however, is not the only factor which can make students of philosophy waver and double back. The earnest advice of friends and the mocking, bantering attacks of critics can also, on their occurrence, [...]
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11, 2016
Memory’s saving grace
Memory's saving grace: how history, carried in deep recollection, can rescue us in adversity. Meantime they were strolling slowly along the path and suddenly Smurov exclaimed: “There's Ilusha's stone, under which they wanted to bury him.” They all stood still by the big stone. Alyosha looked and the whole picture of what Snegiryov had described [...]
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10, 2016
Death by technology (Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine)
Death by technology: how living with technology deprives us of silence, inwardness, and the ability to find the well-springs of life. And this condition has its own, overlooked history. From the article: The English Reformation began, one recalls, with an assault on the monasteries, and what silence the Protestants didn’t banish the philosophers of the Enlightenment [...]