Word: moralizes
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...wasn’t really going to share this next part, because it is embarrassing and could potentially cost me money. But this is not about me and my personal shame. There is an important moral here: sometimes it is worse to have tried...
...first Harvard midterm, in Literature and Arts B-21, “Images of Alexander the Great,” and the due date of my first Harvard paper, for Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” fell on the same day. I had spent the bulk of the weekend hanging out late with new first-year friends, and I had left the academics for Sunday night. When at 4 a.m., after eight hours of paper writing, my head finally hit the pillow, I had a whole schedule for Monday morning planned out in my mind...
...theories are not equally valid; all works are not equally important. Consequently, there is some kind of intellectual hierarchy—and Harvard has a duty to guide its students to the things that are most crucial for them to study. For example, I deeply regret having fulfilled my moral reasoning requirement by reading the “political philosophy” espoused by the Attica prison rioters and by a group of disgruntled bus passengers in Los Angeles, bypassing Kant, Rousseau, Nietzsche and Mill. Admittedly, it was my (rookie) error to take Moral Reasoning about Social Protest instead...
...boundary issue is devilishly complex. Changes in international law, sovereignty and geopolitics have left a murky situation. That Australia is rich and East Timor is poor counts for nothing. Yet the new nation's recent tragic history - neglected Portuguese colony and brutalized invaded territory - gives the talks a profound moral dimension. John Howard's government spent considerable political capital and diplomatic effort on Timorese independence; it sent 5,700 troops and led the U.N.'s interfet peacekeeping force. "Having helped to liberate East Timor, Australia is obliged to see it succeed," says a western diplomat in Dili. Australian Greens Senator...
...social sciences. For too long, science concentrators have been burdened with a disproportionate number of requirements outside their chosen field of study. Many of the Core areas overlap with non-science fields; whereas science concentrators are required to take three Literature and Arts courses, two Historical Study courses, one Moral Reasoning and one Foreign Cultures course. The newer, more equitable system is an acknowledgement that the hard sciences deserve just as prominent a position in the curriculum as the humanities and social sciences...