As you may have heard (see this article on Inside Higher Ed), a professor in Pitzer College Claremount, CA is conducting a media studies class not only on YouTube but on YouTube:
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Cutting nature at its joints: boundary-making
Posted on September 15, 2007 by Jeremy
The Rhine near Cologne
Just a little curiosity; I had always thought that the phrase “cutting nature at its joints” was original to Richard Rorty (it was the kind of thing he liked to say) but as I should have guessed it is from Plato, Phaedrus:
Phaedrus
And what is the other principle, Socrates?[265e] Socrates
That of dividing things [eide: forms] again by classes, where the natural joints [arthra: joint] are, and not trying to break any part, after the manner of a bad carver.
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