Columbia Core

Columbia College Core Curriculum

[Columbia Core @ColumbiaCore]

Announcing the first cohort of Visiting Professors in the Core Curriculum! https://t.co/yqw9U4PZa6

[Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison]

Treachery is the 9th & final circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno. All residents are frozen in an icy lake to varying depths depending on the severity of their Treachery. At the bottom lies Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus with a kiss & now has his brains eaten. Art: Gustave Dore

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

James Madison died today 1836—this bust was created from his life mask, made at age 74: #Browere

[Columbia Core @ColumbiaCore]

In this episode, BBC’s In Our Time compares and contrasts Rousseau’s ideas with those of Locke and Hobbes, the other two ‘social contract’ theorists we read in the Core. Useful for thinking about the state of our contract today and ways to mend it. https://t.co/5FWXyqro4m

[In Our Time @BBCInOurTime]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher, was born #OnThisDay 1712 https://t.co/SaAW2xsG47

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

President Eisenhower tomorrow 1956 signed act creating Interstate Highway System, called largest public works project in history:

[The Immanent Frame @ImmanentFrame]

"Deeper reflection on the meaning of civility and its vexed relationship to toleration appears more timely than ever." —@tmbejan introducing a forum on her book "Mere Civility."

Revisit her essay and others in the 2017 forum.

https://t.co/b9R4wftEw8

[Columbia Science @ColumbiaScience]

Thirty years ago, @NASAGISS's Jim Hansen warned the world Earth's climate was warming. That year, 1988, was the hottest on record. Since then, six years have broken that mark. https://t.co/guMzflZ7Vn via @earthinstitute

[pastnow @pastnow_]

Heavy rains force John Keats to wait four hours in the morning before he can start his walking tour of the north. His travelling companion Charles Brown reads from Milton's 'Samson Agonistes' to pass the time. — June 25 1818.

[Columbia Core @ColumbiaCore]

It’s worth adding that many other current Core authors frequently dabble in satire. Among the most mischievous — Ovid, Montaigne, Marx & Nietzsche.

[Columbia Core @ColumbiaCore]

A fascinating discussion of *satire.* How does this genre ���work’ and, if so, how? What have been the qualities and techniques of satire? Does it facilitate change or, by releasing pressure, prevent it? How’s satire doing now—and who’s doing it best?—> https://t.co/4agqPqVOqo

[Columbia Core @ColumbiaCore]

In past years, we’ve read many other satirical works, including Apuleius’ Golden Ass, Rabelais’ Gargantua & Pantagruel, Molierre’s Tartuffe, Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Voltaire’s Candide.

[Eric Adler @ProfEricAdler]

"The #Aeneid is a well ordered Garden, where it is impossible to find any Part unadorned, or to cast our Eyes upon a single Spot that does not produce some beautiful Plant of Flower." --#JohnAdams, 2nd #POTUS

[In Our Time @BBCInOurTime]

Eric Blair, writer, known as George Orwell, was born #OnThisDay 1903 https://t.co/zP4KtXt2sc

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Atomic test visible from Las Vegas, today 1957:

[Laurel Ann | Austenprose.com @Austenprose]

True Janeites are VOTING daily for PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, by Jane Austen in the #GreatReadPBS campaign to discover America's favorite books. #VOTEPridePrej! https://t.co/eDuOl9Lpor #books #reading #SummerReading #SummerReadingChallenge #JaneAusten @JaneAustenBath @pemberleydotcom

[In Our Time @BBCInOurTime]

When the Lamb of God opens the first four of the seven seals and out ride four horsemen. Apocalypse, now: https://t.co/hVLtZVEuUz from 2003

[Columbia Core @ColumbiaCore]

Very Cool. —> “... aims to introduce ‘women philosophers who mostly have been omitted from the philosophical canon despite their historical and philosophical influence.’ So far, reports Daily Nous, ‘there are around 100 entries… with more to be added every few months.’” https://t.co/f3r0l03e9B

[Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org]

The Encyclopedia of Women Philosophers: a new web site presents the contributions of Women Philosophers, from Ancient to Modern https://t.co/c3vrAlJX8J via @openculture

Philosophical Letters by Margaret Cavendish (& the early SF The Blazing World) https://t.co/0XWXxzZgK6

[Ewan Morrison @MrEwanMorrison]

Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706-1783) was a painter from an artist family in Nuremberg. She rejected offers to become a court painter, focusing instead to on insects & flowers. A recluse who chose art over 'the court', her paintings are botanically accurate Momento Mori.