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Shimer College
Chicago, IL
The Great Books College of Chicago
Interests: discussion, Great Books, Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Kant, Augustine, Aquinas, Darwin, Isaac Newton, Descartes, Pascal, Kafka, Homer, Anselm, Locke, Buber, Ruth Benedict, Piaget, Chodorow, DuBois, Durkheim, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Freud, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Wollstonecraft, Arendt, de Beauvoir, Hegel, John Stuart Mill, Lucretius, Bacon, Avogadro, Mendel, Lamarck, Cannizzaro, Lavoisier, Dalton, Galileo, Copernicus, Einstein, Oersted, Huygens, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Feynmann, Shakespeare, Euclid, Lobachevsky, Herodotus, Thucydides, Tacitus, Plutarch, Ptolemy, Aurelius, Dante, Chaucer, Thomas More, Milton, Cervantes, Hume, Goethe
Recent Activity
How to Market Your Liberal Arts Courses to Employers
Posted Nov 24, 2016 at blog.shimer
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Great Works Inspired by Great Books Studies: The Odyssey
Posted Nov 17, 2016 at blog.shimer
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Small Liberal Arts College Students: 3 Questions to Ask While Reading a Great Book
Posted Nov 10, 2016 at blog.shimer
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The Foundations and History of Liberal Arts Programs
Posted Nov 3, 2016 at blog.shimer
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Carefully Cultivated Confidence: An Introduction
I suppose introductions are in order: my name is Ryan Taylor-Davis, and I’m a first-year transfer student at Shimer from Sebastopol, California.
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Posted Oct 31, 2016 at blog.shimer
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Scattered Arabic Thoughts
Among my favourite reading lists this past academic year was for the (lamentably retired) David Lukens’ survey course on Medieval philosophy, spanning from Athenagoras to Buridan.
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Posted Oct 31, 2016 at blog.shimer
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Against Ideas: On Crime and Punishment
I’ve just finished teaching Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment in my Humanities 2 class, surely an endurance marathon for student and teacher alike.
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Posted Oct 31, 2016 at blog.shimer
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A Cold War Kafka: Orson Welles' The Trial
In Shimer’s Humanities 4 class, we read Kafka’s The Trial and watched Orson Welles’ 1962 film adaptation. Generally speaking, the students were disappointed in the changes Welles made to the story – and the way he ended it was a particular source of outrage.
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Posted Oct 31, 2016 at blog.shimer
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Hello from Oxford
Jonathan Timm writes from Oxford, where he is finishing both his thesis and his last semester at Shimer.
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Posted Oct 31, 2016 at blog.shimer
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"The Other Place"
Being in Oxford, one learns fairly early on to refer to “the other place” rather than (shh…) Cambridge. Still, you may hear reference to “Oxbridge“ - as the two universities are more like each other than any other place is like either. Continue reading
Posted Oct 31, 2016 at blog.shimer
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3 Ways a Small Liberal Arts College Can Make You a Better Learner
Posted Oct 27, 2016 at blog.shimer
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Great Works Inspired by Great Books Studies: Kafka's 'The Trial'
Posted Oct 26, 2016 at blog.shimer
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3 Ways Natural Sciences Courses Can Prepare You for a Meaningful Career in Medicine
Posted Oct 25, 2016 at blog.shimer
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Shimer Students Share their Top 4 Readings to Look Out for in Liberal Arts Programs
Posted Oct 6, 2016 at blog.shimer
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3 Banned Books Recommended by the President of Our Great Books College
Posted Sep 29, 2016 at blog.shimer
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Ready to Leave High School? Consider Early Entry into Liberal Arts College Courses
Posted Sep 22, 2016 at blog.shimer
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From Taung Baby to Ava: A Timeline of Evolutionary Icons Uncovered by Natural Sciences Studies
Posted Sep 15, 2016 at blog.shimer
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3 Budgeting Tips for Students Considering Small Liberal Arts Colleges
Posted Sep 8, 2016 at blog.shimer
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Professors vs. Facilitators: Understanding Classroom Dynamics at Top Liberal Arts Schools
Posted Sep 1, 2016 at blog.shimer
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3 Art Museum Perks Available to Students of Our Arts & Humanities Courses
Posted Aug 25, 2016 at blog.shimer
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Who was Robert Maynard Hutchins? Meet the Man Behind ‘Great Books Studies’
Posted Aug 18, 2016 at blog.shimer
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3 Ways You Can Address the 'Inequality Paradigm' in Social Science Education
Posted Aug 11, 2016 at blog.shimer
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Natural Sciences College Students: Learn Why Global Meat Intake is Declining
Posted Aug 4, 2016 at blog.shimer
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Joy Ibsen ’62 Publishes New Book
Here and Hereafter, the Eternity Connection From Joy Ibsen: What are we doing here? What do we know about the hereafter? I didn’t intend to write a memoir—that was an accident. I wanted to share some stories about what I’ve... Continue reading
Posted Aug 1, 2016 at blog.shimer
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Sr. Elizabeth Wagner to Release New Memoir
Seasons in My Garden on sale March 25, 2016. In Seasons in My Garden, award-winning writer Sr. Elizabeth Wagner reveals how tending to a garden in her Maine hermitage brought her to a deeper understanding of what it means to... Continue reading
Posted Aug 1, 2016 at blog.shimer
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