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mastiva

just going to post the editing version of previous entry

Mar 04, 2006 21:24

That title seems to sum up what I am going to discuss. First I would like to have a disclaimer: I am not an "expert" in much of what I will discuss; anyone with other information, opinions, or something fun to add and discuss Please feel free Oh, and I should forewarn the reader that I am a student of theatre, hence the heavy handedness with the ( Read more... )

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creases March 5 2006, 02:37:44 UTC

Properly speaking, the Romantics were largely a reaction against the Enlightenment. (Kant is a transition figure, but mostly the last Enlightenment guy.)

A lot of my philosophical research is shaped by this very union you see, where we can now take the best from both the classic Rationalists of the Enlightenment and from the Romantics.

! :) mastiva March 5 2006, 02:55:52 UTC

No surprise that I would lump things together...since my current course is about theatre, it tends to kind of....drift around the 18th and 19th century in a very strange manner. I'll have to go fix that! :) Wonderful that you already have this connection. I believe I have mentioned that I REALLY REALLY want to learn a lot more about philosophy in general. Say, are there any particular books you recommend?

Re: ! :) bootdevil March 5 2006, 03:05:39 UTC

butting in, but... "philosophy in general"... tho' i'm by no means an expert...

my FAVE to read would have to be Nietzsche. I forget if you're the person I added who had nietzsche in their interests or not, but if not... let me interject that "Beyond Good and Evil", and "Twilight of the Idols/ the Antichrist" (two books together usually available from Penguin Books-- you know, those little yellow-black books) are very good.

As for Kant, Schopenhaur, Russell, Plato, and the rest... I'll let this other person guide you. I'm "read" but not "well read".

You guyz must be in school.

creases March 5 2006, 03:10:52 UTC

I'm doing my PhD in philosophy.

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bootdevil March 5 2006, 02:39:15 UTC

Added you. Cuz.... uhm the devil told me to? No. No... seriously, I understand the principle of Satanism etc. Crowley etc. Hey, I have an original signed copey of A.E. Waite's "Ceremonial Black Magic"... and I also understand that Satanism is a philosophy moreso than a religion (tho' many, and you may be one of them, delve into the religious aspects... which again... don't *neccesarily* have to have anything to do with satan. who is a character I myself like to emulate versions of ( ... )

mastiva March 5 2006, 02:53:00 UTC

You seem to be quite funny at the very least and so I've added you back. Besides, I love q-tips!

bootdevil March 5 2006, 02:44:51 UTC

I was GONNA post something about how I read "Pride and Prejudice" for the first time last year (at the encouraging of a female friend-- who now hates me oddly enough but that's another story [i fell for her, never fall for a friend, etc. broke the rule ( ... )