May 18, 2007
In Jefferson Lecture, Harvey Mansfield Examines What Humanities Can Teach Science
Humanities scholars should have the nerve to remind scientists and political scientists of the importance of the individual, argued Harvey C. Mansfield in the 36th Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, which was delivered on May 8.
In his talk, the scrappy Harvard political scientist and author of Manliness, among other books, invoked the ancient Greek notion of thumos, which, he said, refers to "a part of the soul that wants to insist on our own importance." For Plato and Aristotle, he
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