Why Climate Change Needs English Majors
“In apparently the first course of its kind, UCSB is offering a class in the English department entitled, The Rhetoric of Climate Change. The course employs traditional tools for literary…
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Profit over People
As stated by the Greek philosopher Aristotle, “We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.” This quote shows that we do not act in an…
Morning, May the Odds Forever Be in Your Favor!
When you’re being sucked upward 38 floors in a high rise Manhattan, NY office by an oak wood decorated elevator you obtain this feeling that you’re moving up in the world and that you will soon accomplish great…
‘The Essay of Theseus’: The Ethical Limitations of Editing
The ship of Theseus, dating back to the days of Heraclites, Socrates and Plato, is a thought experiment that goes something as follows: if a ship were to gradually decay, and were to thus require that each part…
Finding Ethics In a Small Liberal Arts School
The bonds of kinship which unite the human race are those which lead to ethical decision making. While this may be a strong assertion to make up front, I beg you to consider the bonds that are…
The Place of the Smartphone at the Desk and Dinner Table
For thousands of years, the standard dinner table has featured the following four items: fork, knife, plate, spoon. Similarly, likely dating back to the days of Plato’s Academy, there have typically sat three items on the standard classroom…
The Undeniable Necessity of Ethics in the Workplace
What is the role of ethics in the work environment? As college students, we have an opportunity to choose ethical or unethical behavior in the classroom every day—right now the classroom is our workplace. Will we take the…
Meaning, Value, Ethics: Asking Questions about the Humanities
What “value” do the Humanities offer that is important, useful, or even distinctive? What skills or abilities are developed through humanistic thought in particular? And if there are skills or abilities distinctive to humanistic training, do we need…
Itay Talgam: Lead like the Great Conductors
Leadership is complicated. It fills volumes of texts, lists business buzz books, calendars of workshop opportunities. How do you manage people, how do you get the most from employees, how do you nurture the creative class, and the…