This particular project has its roots in the present situation. As a senior at Dartmouth, I made the decision of postponing my final quarter until I could finish classes in person. It is unclear when that will be, though I do not foresee it to cross into 2021. In the meantime, I have dedicated myself to extensive study at home, and come fall, I will apply to graduate school in political philosophy.
Dartmouth is my intellectual home: I have much to thank for the excellent education I received there, particularly from my interactions and the classes I took from Prof. James B. Murphy, who introduced me to the concept of philosophic blogging, and introduced me, rigorously, to the world of ideas in a way that I will always be grateful to. Prof. Murphy encouraged me to read, pushed me beyond what I thought my limits were, and told me things as they were when I needed to listen to them the most. I admit that I was not the easiest of students to have in one’s class, but Prof. Murphy kept his patience, and for that I will always be in his debt. If there is anything to praise in this blog, much credit goes to him, but if there are errors, those are mine and mine only.
My thanks and sincere appreciation, in no particular order, are also due to Prof. Barbara E. Will, who led me down the path of humanism my freshman fall and kept me on it in my moments of weakness; to Prof. Bernard Avishai, who kindled with warmth and encouragement my investigations into political economy, despite our apparent disagreements on the conclusion of such investigations; and last, but not the least, to Prof. Allen Hockley, whose guiding hand led me through a tumultuous time as a rather heterodox student of art history, and who took great care in reminding me of the value of looking across disciplines to find whatever it is that I was looking for.