One of the several obnoxious and resurgent themes in my philosophy classrooms is the disdain for the common man. At least once a week I here wry comments regarding beer, football, television, and Baptists (of all things!) and their antithesis to the marvel of "intellect ( Read more... )

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NES Players for truth

Inspired by a post at DYL, and needing a motive to get out of bed this morning, I resolved to create my own analysis of the new semester.

Socrates and the Sophists

Surprisingly, this has been my most enjoyable class. So far we've worked through a text published through Hackett called The Older Sophists which is a sort of compilation of numerous ( Read more... )

You Are a Retrospective Soul


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I've finished the first two chapters of "The Next Reformation" and I still don't know what to think of it. For one thing, I've gone into it keeping Dennis' suggestion in mind:

[I]f you want a critique of modernity, read Against Christianity instead.
I've a hard enough time with the technical language of the Modernist philosophers, though I'm ( Read more... )

It is striking to me that in all of Descartes meditations and in his obsession with a priori foundations that he never considers from whence all his ideas come, that being language. Further, he never considers that experience always preceeds language about the experience. Oh, contemptable Platonist! How you pretend!

Intro to Education. Boring me to death. Must die. Cannot bear...

Today marks the first of my adventures at UNF. I'm finally a Junior (or at least, I will be when sufficient paperwork is processed through FCCJ). After 3 and a half years. Ma' should be proud ( Read more... )

I spent a good deal of my Christmas spending money (80 bux) on literature for my personal theological studies ( Read more... )