“The University of Colorado is considering a $9 million program to bring high-profile conservatives to teach on the left-leaning Boulder campus.”
Bad idea says Fish. Put scholarship and learning above any political considerations.
He also distinguishes between conservative thought and conservative aesthetics:
A course in conservative thought might run from:
“…Plato and Aristotle and hitting the highlights including Hooker, Hobbes, Adam Smith, Burke, Schmitt, Wyndham Lewis, Oakeshott, Strauss, Kirk, Bork…”
and conservative aesthetics:
“…Plato and Aristotle [sic} including Dante, Puttenham, Swift, Pope, Bergson, Matthew Arnold, Irving Babbitt, Eliot, Pound and Allan Bloom…”
So would liberal aesthetics include the Romantics, Santayana, modern lyrical poetry etc…? What about Nietzsche?
Certainly Plato isn’t merely conservative?
by carpe icthus
