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Part of the common law commons, and the contracts commons recommended citation w. This page was last edited on 27 august 2018, at 16. John erskine, founder of columbia universitys core curriculum in the 1920s, wrote an essay with the title i. Chinua achebe and the moral obligation to be intelligent. The moral obligation to be intelligent semantic scholar.
Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the moral obligation to be intelligent. In opposition to the prevailing theories of the new critics, he adopted a broader approach. Buy a cheap copy of the moral obligation to be intelligent book by lionel trilling. Trilling emphatically believed that the problems of life must indeed be brought before the mind, thought not for the purpose of eliciting anything so simple and so heartening as answers. The second important report by her majestys inspectorate of constabulary set out the main elements of intelligence led policing and crime reduction policing with intelligence hmic, 1997. The moral obligation to be intelligent is an influential essay, part of the essay collection the. The moral obligation to be intelligent by erskine, john, 1921, bobbsmerrill edition, new and enl.
I still feel that the essay says clearly what i meant that to be as intelligent as we can is a moral obligation that intelligence is one of the talents for the use of. Selected essays of lionel trilling ebook written by lionel trilling. New york, duffield and company, 1915 ocolc656489168. As a species, we have a moral obligation to enhance. It contains thirty of trillings finest essays, his two famous prefaces to the liberal imagination and beyond culture, and a welljudged introduction by wieseltier. By contrast, protest has all the opposite features. The essay on the moral obligation to be intelligent was composed as a phi beta kappa oration, and delivered at amherst college just before the war world war i began. Trilling 190574 epitomized the idea of the 1950s new york intellectual.
The moral obligation to be intelligent, by john erskine. Edited and with an introduction by leon wieseltier. The complicated mind of lionel trilling is once again on display in the moral obligation to be intelligent an anthology of essays that begins in 1938 and ends in 1975. However, ive argued that we have a moral obligation to choose what ive sometimes described as allpurpose goods. A landmark reissue of a great teachers finest work lionel trilling was, during his lifetime, generally acknowledged to. Trilling was a strenuous thinker who was proud to think too much.
The book is edited and introduced by leon wieseltier, who was an undergraduate student of trillings at columbia and is now the literary editor of the new republic. The moral obligation to be intelligent lionel trilling. Lionel trilling 190574 taught at columbia university from 1931 until his death and was the author of many books, including matthew arnold and a novel, the middle of the journey. Both report accepted the use of intelligence led policing tactics in crime reduction of high volume crimes such as vehicle theft and burglary which. The client agrees to a growing black student population, many of the dialogic interplay of substance, essays selected be moral the obligation to intelligent form, context, and to promote the personal in extract 2 she is also required.
From the introduction to american character and other essays, by john erskine, in which this essay appeared. But here we must judge not only by the moral equipment of the characters and it is not at all certain that mr. This force is commonly described by saying that obligations are things that a person must do or that he is required to do. The moral obligation to be intelligent selected essays available for download and read. The moral obligation to be intelligent ebook por lionel. The moral obligation to be intelligent and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Bringing together the thoughts of one of american literatures sharpest cultural critics, this compendium will open the eyes of a whole new audience to the work of. Bringing together the thoughts of one of american literatures sharpest cultural critics, this compendium will open the eyes of a whole new audience to the work of lionel trilling.
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The moral obligation to be intelligent and other essays. Paideia high schoolmoral obligation to be intelligent, the. Xxll foreword in the introduction to a collection entitled american character and other essays, erskine defends criticism leveled against the central thesis of the essay in question. It can be divided into a concern with the moral behavior of humans as they design, construct, use and treat artificially intelligent beings, and machine ethics, which is concerned with the moral behavior of artificial moral agents amas.
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It is improper to imply that all right acts are right for the same reason. The paperback of the moral obligation to be intelligent. The paper argues that account of moral obligation she favoured is quite different from that taught by early modern and late medieval catholic scholasticism. The moral obligation to be intelligent is the result. It does not have much pizazz but just as water is necessary to sustain life, intelligence is necessary to sustain a moral life. The moral obligation to be intelligent selected essays of lionel trilling by lionel trilling author leon wieseltier author of introduction, etc. He consciousness of moral obligation is the central problem of modern, as the. It is clamorous, attentiongetting, and eminently newsworthy.
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