Word: moralizes
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...Ferrell’s…well, God only knows what Will Ferrell will do and how clothed he’ll be when he does it. But once it’s over, if you suspect that you’ve spent too much time searching for the moral of the story, you’re probably right...
...Michigan affirmative action cases, argued before the Supreme Court this spring, have presented us with the most profound questions about meritocracy. At their heart, the cases ask us to reexamine our beliefs about what constitutes merit, and whether any sort of merit that can be measured numerically translates into moral desert. In other words, can we say that a given candidate, even one with a perfect GPA and LSAT score, deserves or is entitled to a spot at Michigan Law School? Or is merit more instrumental—a construct that can be manipulated to serve an institution?...
...Core areas that were agreed upon were: Literature, Fine Arts, Music and Contexts of Culture, Historical Orientation, Historical Process and Perspective, Social Analysis, Moral and Political Philosophy, Physical Science and Mathematics, Biological and Behavioral Science and either Western Europe (including language) or a major non-Western culture...
...past several years, Harris has alternated between teaching Moral Reasoning 54: “‘If There is No God, All is Permitted’: Theism and Moral Reasoning,” and Foreign Cultures 56: “Jewish Life in Eastern Europe...
...ourselves. Maybe a part of the meanness comes from the nature of academia, which advances by finding faults with the present body of knowledge. Or it could even be a symptom of having such a small proportion of students deeply adhere to some religious faith or other source of moral codes...