Amppax Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 I want your schedule. I'll trade you an early Christian writings seminar? I kid, but I'm so jealous. If I wasn't such an overachiever, I'd have the time to take more philosophy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted September 5, 2012 Author Share Posted September 5, 2012 (edited) [quote name='Marie-Therese' timestamp='1346822677' post='2478654'] I've read Sartre and Heidegger...are you taking existentialist philosophy this semester? I read Sartre quite a bit in the existentialist class I had early on in college, along with Nietzsche, Simone de Beauvoir, and a few others. I found Sartre fascinating. [/quote] The class is a 20th century special topics course, but I think we are mostly focussing on existentialism. Edited September 5, 2012 by Nihil Obstat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 All my textbooks this semester have the words archeology or anthropology on the cover. If I had your books, I'd jump off the High Level Bridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 I'd like to read the works of Nietzsche. But only if they've been tattooed onto a woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmenchristi Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 [quote name='Papist' timestamp='1346806760' post='2478496'] He can get those on video. [/quote] mmmm.... probably better to use Cliff's Notes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted September 13, 2012 Author Share Posted September 13, 2012 Started hard into the metaphysics of death today. Pretty fun so far. Began with Epicurus and Lucretius, then skipped ahead a bit to Nagel (just a little bit of a leap). I'm anticipating at this point trying to refute Epicurus and Lucretius, but I'm not particularly a fan at this point of the possible worlds argument Nagel uses. I'm wondering instead if I could come from an Aristotelian/Aquinian direction and demonstrate life as a positive reality, and the state of death as essentially a negation of being, therefore a negation of good, therefore evil/bad in and of itself.At the moment I'm reading Heidegger's "What Is Metaphysics?". Never before have I thought so hard about nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not The Philosopher Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 [quote name='Nihil Obstat' timestamp='1347518434' post='2481943'] At the moment I'm reading Heidegger's "What Is Metaphysics?". Never before have I thought so hard about nothing. [/quote] Don't let yourself get all worked up over nothing. (I had to say it) Actually, I've been feeling a strange urge to crack open [i]Being and Time[/i] lately... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted September 13, 2012 Author Share Posted September 13, 2012 He certainly is quite pleasant to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not The Philosopher Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 His essays on poetry made me feel otherwise a couple of years back. Though that was a time when I was more than a little fed up with continental philosophy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted September 13, 2012 Author Share Posted September 13, 2012 [quote name='Not The Philosopher' timestamp='1347553575' post='2482011'] His essays on poetry made me feel otherwise a couple of years back. Though that was a time when I was more than a little fed up with continental philosophy. [/quote] I definitely felt that way about Hegel last year... I dislike him very strongly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhuturePriest Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 [quote name='Winchester' timestamp='1346862666' post='2478774'] I'd like to read the works of Nietzsche. But only if they've been tattooed onto a woman. [/quote] An anarchist woman, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not The Philosopher Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 [quote name='Nihil Obstat' timestamp='1347556131' post='2482022'] I definitely felt that way about Hegel last year... I dislike him very strongly. [/quote] I actually liked the [i]Phenomenology of Spirit[/i]. As philosophically borked as it is, a tome which manages to zig-zag from a discussion of indexicals to Greek tragedy to phrenology to the French Revolution (among other things) is somewhat entertaining in an intellectual-roller-coaster sort of way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted September 13, 2012 Author Share Posted September 13, 2012 [quote name='Not The Philosopher' timestamp='1347558278' post='2482035'] I actually liked the [i]Phenomenology of Spirit[/i]. As philosophically borked as it is, a tome which manages to zig-zag from a discussion of indexicals to Greek tragedy to phrenology to the French Revolution (among other things) is somewhat entertaining in an intellectual-roller-coaster sort of way. [/quote] Lol! I wish I had thought of it that way. I thought it was infuriatingly indirect. To be perfectly honest, I think Hegel was actively trying to obscure whatever it was he was saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardillacid Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 [quote name='Ed Normile' timestamp='1346805021' post='2478474'] It seem you forgot Green Eggs and Ham ( Dr. Suess) [/quote]tldr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Era Might Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 You might be interested in this 5-part podcast by David Cayley where he interviews five contemporary thinkers. The series is entitled "After Atheism." It's from CBC Radio in Canada. [url="http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/podcasts/"]http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/podcasts/[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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