February 2012
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FINALLY finished with this paper
and I feel like it’s either really great or really really stupid
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everythingdavematthewsband:
Proudest Monkey -...
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1 hour to finish & turn in this paper
I’m on the home stretch!
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Watch
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A Culmination of Eternity: Nietzsche's Solution to...
thus-spoke-nietzsche:
The Absurd, also known as the doctrine of absurdism, is the philosophical stance depicted by Albert Camus in novels, and philosophical essays, authored throughout his lifetime, and has left a significant impact on existential philosophy ever since. The main precept of absurdism, expressed by Camus, is the divorce between man’s yearning for meaning and the inherent...
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it’s amazing how the internet becomes 1,000,000 times more interesting when you have to write a paper.
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ilooklikebarackobama →
crazyeasy:
I can’t breathe
“While both of us are half-white. Barack’s other half is black, but my other half is also white.”
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how have I already written two pages
I haven’t even started talking about Heidegger yet. movin’ right along!
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists...”
– Albert Camus (via philosophy-quotes)
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never in my life have I written an introductory paragraph this quickly. I feel ready to take on the whole world now
I guess I should start working on this paper now
sigh
Anonymous asked: Oh and I think Nietzsche believes...
in-the-midst-of-winter:
outofthedarkness:
That’s exactly the problem I have with Nietzsche; I don’t think it’s legitimate to go around imposing your own meaning on things simply because you can. I agree with Heidegger, who said, “man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.” It’s not our job, nor is it our absolute right, to run around interpreting the world in any way we like....
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I’m so tired
and I have 26 hours to write a paper on existential phenomenology
sigh
Anonymous asked: Does theology play a role in which philosophies you enjoy? Like I see you enjoy Kierkegaard (though there's certainly more to him than just religion) while you dislike St. Thomas Aquinas.
MACHO MACHO MAN
I WANNA BE
A MACHO MAN
Anonymous asked: What is your opinion on the philosophy of Schopenhauer?
To everyone who sends me messages:
If you want me to answer privately, please say so. Otherwise, I’ll probably assume it’s okay to publish.
Anonymous asked: What do you think it means to exist?
Anonymous asked: Oh and I think Nietzsche believes that one has their own personal truths, and that the philosopher writes and embellishes upon those personal truths and that act is a form of "Will to Power", as it is trying to manifest ones own world-views onto the world.
Anonymous asked: 'Will To Power' seems to be a tool one can apply to almost any aspect of life--from a proletariat revolution to even the philosopher. I actually really believe in the theory. What's usually bothered me about Nietzsche is his misogyny, but from what I heard he doesn't really hate women but hates the ineffectual attitudes shared amongst women at the time.
okay time to tackle all the questions in my ask box
I’ve never had this many messages at once I can’t believe it
thatsmoderatelyraven:
my brother just walked in my room and said “Hello! greetings from apple world”
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…and here come all the messages about Nietzsche
I have to leave right now, but I promise I’ll answer them all when I get back in a few hours!
Anonymous asked: What aspects of Nietzsche do you like and dislike?
there are lots of runners-up for the Philosophy Love List like Jean-Paul Sartre and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and even Plato gets a spot
but I had to limit it to 5 :/
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The Philosophy Love/Hate List
One more list! These are guys with whom I have true love/hate relationships. Sometimes they’re great, other times I really can’t stand them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Aristotle
Immanuel Kant
Benedict/Baruch Spinoza
Edmund Husserl
merrycrassmas replied to your post: The Philosophy Love List
I was just seconds late in reblogging the first version with the huge formatting error.
that’s what happens when I try to do the slash-through-the-o in Kierkegaard’s name :/
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The Philosophy Love List
I did the Hate List earlier, so I figure I should do the Love List - my top 5 most favoritest philosophers ever. I assume most of my followers could guess all these names without my help, but here goes:
Albert Camus
Martin Heidegger
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lev Shestov
Soren Kierkegaard
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inquisitiveowl replied to your post: The Philosophy Hate List
Does hitchens really count as philosophy? Bleh, I don’t like to categorize him as such. Dawkins should have stuck to science. And I’m not sure if I hate aquinas as much as I hate anselm…
Yeah, Hitchens is a tricky case. At the very least I’d call him a “thinker” if not a true philosopher (how much of a difference is...
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The Philosophy Hate List
Maybe this goes with the territory of studying philosophy, but I have a lot of philosopher-enemies. There are people I really disagree with, people I think are jerks, and people who are both. So I decided to make a list of my top 5 enemies. The order was a little tricky to pin down, but I think this is the most accurate:
Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens
Ayn Rand
St. Thomas Aquinas
G.W.F....