Comments on: Weekend Roundup http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/01/02/weekend-roundup-8/ The Big Questions | Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics Fri, 17 May 2013 16:12:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Steve Landsburg http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/01/02/weekend-roundup-8/comment-page-1/#comment-1567 Steve Landsburg Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:33:11 +0000 http://www.thebigquestions.com/?p=1754#comment-1567 Stanley Nemeth: I promise to blog about this before the month is out. Stanley Nemeth: I promise to blog about this before the month is out.

]]> By: Stanley Nemeth http://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/01/02/weekend-roundup-8/comment-page-1/#comment-1566 Stanley Nemeth Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:17:33 +0000 http://www.thebigquestions.com/?p=1754#comment-1566 Steven: I think your contention that a character building course such as Shakespeare shouldn't count for academic credit at colleges and universities needs a fuller discussion rather than the fairly curt dismissal - despite your valuing it yourself - you've given the same. Similarly, since you write so lucidly and coherently, I wonder if composition courses that teach argument and the essential principles of the written word are necessarily useless. Stanley Steven:
I think your contention that a character building course such as Shakespeare shouldn’t count for academic credit at colleges and universities needs a fuller discussion rather than the fairly curt dismissal – despite your valuing it yourself – you’ve given the same. Similarly, since you write so lucidly and coherently, I wonder if composition courses that teach argument and the essential principles of the written word are necessarily useless.

Stanley

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