Puerto Rican blurbs on every day life.
February 26, 2012 by Debbie
Original post date: October 31, 2011. What the hell is this, Debbie?
*Debbienote: For this post, the assigned readings were “On Liberty” by John Stuart Mill and “Discourse and Truth: The Problematization of Parrhesia” by Michel Foucault. Basically, they talked about what it means to be truly free – in speech, and otherwise. Another book that I would recommend, for the sake of background information, is “Discipline and Punishment” by Michel Foucault, which sort of goes into detail about his point of view regarding liberty and how liberty sort of “evolved.”
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February 19, 2012 by Debbie
Original post date: October 24, 2011. What the hell is this, Debbie?
*Debbienote: The first reading assignment here was the first three chapters of John Stuart Mill’s “On Liberty.” The second reading assignment was Epictetus’ “Handbook (Enchiridion)“, which is a quick and easy read that I highly recommend for everyone. It’s very peaceful, almost zen-like reading. I also mentioned the Handbook in this post.
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February 12, 2012 by Debbie
Original post date: October 15, 2011. What the hell is this, Debbie?
*Debbienote: Here, I sort of drew from the Anselm and Aquinas works when I was referencing the works to follow. In this post, while I reference both Anselm and Aquinas (the latter moreso than the former), I am mostly referencing Pascal’s Wager, which is part of his larger Pensees (Section III, part 233) and Nietzsche’s infamous Birth of Tragedy (to which I cannot find a link, only a synopsis) and The Gay Science (Aphorism 125: The madman). In passing, I also mention Sextus Empiricus’ Outlines of Pyrrhonism, which, if you’ll recall, I blogged on more in depth in my “Definitions of Madness.” If you read none of those, I suggest you read “Aphorism 125: The madman,” or at least the Pensees (Pascal’s Wager is incredibly famous in atheist and Christian discussions alike).
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February 11, 2012 by Debbie
The title’s deceptive, isn’t it?
You look at it and you think this post is going to be about what Beauty is, and what it means to be Beautiful.
No.
There’s a show on DirecTV right now, on QVC called “Philosophy: Beauty.” The description reads
Shopping. Skin care, cosmetics, and fragrance. Series.
I’m an angry Philosophy/Psychology double major right now. Fucking false advertising.
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February 5, 2012 by Debbie
Original post date: October7, 2011. What the hell is this, Debbie?
*Debbienote: Now, the philosophy class begins to get heated. Prior to this blog post, we were assigned two readings: Anselm and Gaunilo’s argument (the link is a relatively long read, so be prepared for that, but it’s pretty simple to understand) and Thomas Aquinas’ famous Summa Theologica (of which we only read Questions 2, 75, and 76 of the First Part). We also went over three main arguments that are often used for the existence of God: the Cosmological, the Design, and the Ontological arguments. While we did not read Paley’s Watchmaker analogy, we very briefly mentioned it in passing during the class: the professor said something to the effect of, “[The design argument] isn’t quite as simple as something akin to designing a watch.” However, I think she made an invalid point when she said that… the design argument, quite frankly, does say that Intelligent Design is something akin to designing a watch.
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