CATEGORY: LITERATURE (4 min)
Remember Gulliver?
The character who woke to find himself a captive giant in a land of tiny people?
Whether you read Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels in high school or not, this strange and surreal tale deserves your attention.
It’s less like Alice in Wonderland and more like Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes.
See the World at Scale
In this week’s Intercollegiate Review essay, Casey Chalk holds this literary classic up to our contemporary culture and politics. You’ll be amazed at how little human behavior changes.
Yes, it’s 2020, not 1726. But some jokes don’t get old . . .
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CATEGORY: PHILOSOPHY (6 min)
“I disagree . . .”
“But that’s not true, because . . .”
Chances are you’ve responded to arguments that way before. You criticize certain ideas or methods because, naturally, you see where they break down.
But there are other ways to pursue the truth through argument.
You Need Aquinas and Ockham
In Aeon, Professor Martin Lenz argues for a different kind of arguing: an amicable discussion that takes into account the human tendency to protect reputations rather than to propose ideas.
Read on to see what it looks like in practice.
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CATEGORY: PHILOSOPHY (100 min)
Is moral knowledge innate to every person? Where does human dignity come from?
This excellent lecture by Princeton professor Robert P. George reveals the answers to these questions and many others.
His thought-provoking talk will make any commute more enjoyable.
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In The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis writes that “the serious magical endeavour and the serious scientific endeavour are twins.”
Odd words. Why would he make such a claim?
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Not only will you grasp a complex topic in one weekend—you’ll make friends and have intelligent conversation with thoughtful students and top scholars!
Spots are limited and applications close January 30.
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