The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent

The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent and Other Essays
Title page for The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent and Other Essays (1915)
AuthorJohn Erskine
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPhilosophy
Published1915
Publication placeUnited States (New York, Duffield)
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The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent and Other Essays (1914), by John Erskine, is an essay first presented to the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Amherst College, where Erskine taught before working as a professor of English at Columbia University. [1][2] [3] Originally, "The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent" was published in the quarterly magazine The Hibbert Journal, in 1914, and a year later was published in the essay collection The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent, and Other Essays (1915). [4][3]

Moreover, during his twenty-eight-year tenure (1909–1937) at Columbia University, Erskine formulated the General Honors Course. In the early 1920s he taught a great books course at Columbia, which later founded the influential Great Books movement.[5]

  1. ^ Graff 1989, p. 278.
  2. ^ Rubin 1992, p. 161.
  3. ^ a b Erskine 1921, p. vii.
  4. ^ Trilling 2008, p. x.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference nyt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).