Funding Opportunity from the National Endowment for the Humanities: EnduringQuestions Grant

Deadline: September 15 for projects beginning June 1, 2010

From the National Endowment for the Humanities web site:

The Enduring Questions grant program supports a faculty member'sdevelopment of a new course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. This course will encourage undergraduate students and a teacher to grapple with a fundamental question addressed by the humanities, and to join together in a deep and sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day.

What is an enduring question? The following list is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive but serves to illustrate.

* What is the good life?
* What is happiness?
* What is friendship?
* What is beauty?
* Is there a human nature, and, if so, what is it?
* What is the relationship between humans and the natural world?
* How do science and ethics relate to one another?
* Is there such a thing as right and wrong?  Good and evil?
* What is good government?

http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html#other