Mary Elizabeth Halper

Tutor.

[Mary Elizabeth Halper @philopolites]

@fxxfy @johnehrett I finished this just after emailing the Kierkegaard group and wanted to email everyone again right away just to send them this. Maybe I still will...

[Hertog Foundation @HertogFDN]

Alumna @ElaynethePain in @LawLiberty on reading old books in an age of distraction

https://t.co/saZz7ni2bz

[Hertog Foundation @HertogFDN]

Meet Zane Zovak, a Political Studies Program '20 alum.

Zane is now pursuing his MA in International Relations, at Tsinghua University as a #SchwarzmanScholar (@SchwarzmanOrg). Hear from Zane below!

#AlumniSpotlights #HertogAlumni

[Mary Elizabeth Halper @philopolites]

@mythwright @pleonidasp Boo; hiss.

[Zena Hitz @zenahitz]

Proud to announce a new endeavor in adult education: The Catherine Project. We offer Oxford-style tutorials, on great books and fundamental questions; on related skills (writing, dead languages ...) & peer-led reading groups. No credits, no degrees, no grades, no fixed tuition.

[Mary Elizabeth Halper @philopolites]

What should I read to the contrary?

[Mary Elizabeth Halper @philopolites]

Agreeing readily with nearly everything Ivan Illich is saying in Deschooling Society. This almost never happens, and I'm worried I'm just not thinking it through.

[Mary Elizabeth Halper @philopolites]

@Da3dalusStephen Great! I've got the Philip Wayne's translation for Penguin Classics. And I'm trying to fill an irksome gap in my education.

[Mary Elizabeth Halper @philopolites]

Anyone up for a reading group on Goethe's Faust?

[Mary Elizabeth Halper @philopolites]

@second_sailing No longer suspending my baseness.

[Mary Elizabeth Halper @philopolites]

Joanna Newsom's "Monkey & Bear" is an eerily perfect allegory for my relationship to Academia.

[Law & Liberty @LawLiberty]

. @philopolites on Cato the Younger and what may be asked of those facing the possible collapse of their regime. https://t.co/t7AcXs7iUl

[Mary Elizabeth Halper @philopolites]

@giannaenglert @HertogFDN Not for this summer, unfortunately.

[Mary Elizabeth Halper @philopolites]

@giannaenglert @HertogFDN sounds like a good fit!

[Mary Elizabeth Halper @philopolites]

@alexpriou Also, could you say more about what opacity means? Would self-hiddenness be a synonym?

[Mary Elizabeth Halper @philopolites]

@alexpriou The very first one! It's going to be fun year.

[Mary Elizabeth Halper @philopolites]

And I'm reminded of Plato's Charmides, where moderation is one time defined as the knowledge of knowledge. But here, the lesson of moderation seems to be knowledge of ignorance; more: unrecognized ignorance.

[Mary Elizabeth Halper @philopolites]

I wonder how this lesson in moderation is to be made compatible with the "enlightened zeal" (as opposed to the later two deceitful kinds of zeal) in paragraph 5.

[Mary Elizabeth Halper @philopolites]

@DWDBahr @pleonidasp Want a reading buddy?