Literature, movies, visual art, and music are first and foremost entertainment. I don’t go to the movies or read a book or visit a museum because I want to improve my soul. If that was my goal I would be better off consulting a rabbi or spending my hours working in a soup kitchen or [...]
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Why Do I Read?
Posted in Literature and Theory, Philosophy, tagged Literature on August 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Relationship between Aristotle and Plato?
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Philosophy on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A great post over at What Do I Know? A Classical Literature Blog speculating about the relationship between Aristotle and Plato. One of the most insightful points J. D. brings up is how the various central debates of Western culture: Religion vs. Science, Romanticism vs. Realism, intuition vs. observation–are all variants of the same [...]
Atheists Vs. Faith (Round 1 . . . Ding! Ding!)
Posted in Philosophy, Religion on December 18, 2007 | 10 Comments »
What is it about atheists?
I totally respect their right to have their own beliefs. If they want to deny the existence of the Lord, that’s cool with me. I’d still be their pals, nor do I feel some desperate desire for them to worship God or think any less of them for not wanting to [...]
Can’t figure it out!
Posted in Graduate School, Philosophy on April 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I can’t figure out what I want to write for my final paper in the Foucault class.
1) My first idea was to compare Foucault’s philosophy with Simone De Beauvoir’s existential philosophy because I think there are many similarities between them, especially in the insistence human beings are always caught up in relations with the [...]
Sacred Monstrous: A Reflection of Violence
Posted in Booklist 2007, Philosophy on January 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am very leery of the “progressive” theories/philosophies/polemics that dominate the “scholarship” of academia these days. The Sacred Monstrous: A Reflection on Violence in human communities by Wendy C. Hamblet is no exception.
Basically this book seeks to trace the violent rituals of the earliest tribal society and show how modernity’s current epidemic of violence actually [...]
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