Monthly Archives: April 2010

Faith, truth, and reality

Monday, April 26, 2010

On Friday we discussed the convergence of, and tension between, reason and faith.  Harvard in particular is an interesting environment — as a leading educational institution in the world, its values are well-grounded in ideals of reason and truth.  Faith — widely known to be that which we believe in, but which doesn’t often manifest [...]

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Thinking of Freedom, Religiously

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Perhaps April is the month of freedom. It certainly is for at least some major swaths of the population: Jews celebrated Passover during April, commemorating their deliverance from slavery in Egypt at the hand of God. Republicans like me hoped for the freedom to pay fewer taxes on April 15. Even stoners thought about freedom [...]

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Reason and Faith at Harvard

Friday, April 23, 2010

At Harvard, there is a clear emphasis on the importance of reason – our General Education requirements include Ethical Reasoning, and before the establishment of the GenEd system, the Core required us to take a Moral Reasoning core; so even in creating requirements that parallel other colleges’ ‘religious ethics’ requirements, Harvard adds an emphasis on [...]

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