Word: morality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beyond the realm of human decency to be presented in serious academic settings. Also, classroom presentation of explicit photographic materials on violence aginst women (and children) and other such pathological activities is considered an act of gross impropriety and is verboten in academic and other institutions of reasonable moral standards...
After the Watergate crisis and the Vietnam War, President Bok stepped forth with a call to bring back a sense of ethics and morality into undergraduate education. We can presume that the title of one category of new Core Curriculum courses, Moral Reasoning, springs from that initiative. So also may his wife's commendable book on the ills springing from lying in public affairs...
...midst of the Harberger controversy, the same President Bok tells us that the quality of scholarship of an appointee is considered from "political, moral, or ideological considerations." My sense of snock is profound...
Beyond this, I would suggest that the instances in the history of human thought where personal moral integrity bears a causal relationship to the discovery of important truth are legion. The same is true in "belles letters" and perhaps also in visual arts. The problem is not merely to find "excellence," as John Silber puts it, but to define what "excellence" is. Humanity is general seems to think that excellent scholarship has something to do with meeting the needs of the world's unfortunate and underprivileged people. Academic administrators in the Boston area increasingly seem to feel instead that...
...delving deep into the writings of Marx and Engels in order to reach negative conclusions about any Soviet moves, straining to ignore any defensive motives they may have. Soviet troops never waged war beyond their borders without a rational defensive purpose--which is not, of course, to imply a moral right--until their Afghanistan foray; therefore it would be logical to inquire whether some defensive purpose might not be involved here too. Frequent American outcries for military action to protect Persian Gulf oil, heard since 1973 and escalated with the hostage crisis, might constitute the real impetus for this ostensible...