Mary Elizabeth Halper

@fxxfy @johnehrett I finished this just after emailing the Kierkegaard group and wanted to email everyone again right away just to send them this. Maybe I still will...

Alumna @ElaynethePain in @LawLiberty on reading old books in an age of distraction lawliberty.org/book-review/re…

Meet Zane Zovak, a Political Studies Program '20 alum. Zane is now pursuing his MA in International Relations, at Tsinghua University as a #SchwarzmanScholar (@SchwarzmanOrg). Hear from Zane below! #AlumniSpotlights #HertogAlumni

@mythwright @pleonidasp Boo; hiss.

@pleonidasp Boo! Hiss!

Proud to announce a new endeavor in adult education: The Catherine Project. We offer Oxford-style tutorials, on great books and fundamental questions; on related skills (writing, dead languages ...) & peer-led reading groups. No credits, no degrees, no grades, no fixed tuition.

What should I read to the contrary?

Agreeing readily with nearly everything Ivan Illich is saying in Deschooling Society. This almost never happens, and I'm worried I'm just not thinking it through.

@Da3dalusStephen Great! I've got the Philip Wayne's translation for Penguin Classics. And I'm trying to fill an irksome gap in my education.

Anyone up for a reading group on Goethe's Faust?

@second_sailing No longer suspending my baseness.

@philopolites Just ripping off limbs as you go, eh? Good thing monkey is so persuasive.

Joanna Newsom's "Monkey & Bear" is an eerily perfect allegory for my relationship to Academia.

. @philopolites on Cato the Younger and what may be asked of those facing the possible collapse of their regime. bit.ly/3aH0aVj

@giannaenglert @HertogFDN Not for this summer, unfortunately.

@giannaenglert @HertogFDN sounds like a good fit!

@alexpriou Also, could you say more about what opacity means? Would self-hiddenness be a synonym?

@alexpriou The very first one! It's going to be fun year.

And I'm reminded of Plato's Charmides, where moderation is one time defined as the knowledge of knowledge. But here, the lesson of moderation seems to be knowledge of ignorance; more: unrecognized ignorance.

I wonder how this lesson in moderation is to be made compatible with the "enlightened zeal" (as opposed to the later two deceitful kinds of zeal) in paragraph 5.

@DWDBahr @pleonidasp Want a reading buddy?