In tutorial we ended with four classes on Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche. I’m not sure what to make of it. I’m not sure that anyone knew what to make of it. It seems like the sort of thing that offers a lot of fascinating and suggestive insights into the less talked about side [...]
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The Writing Process
NOTE: The following is personal, and therefore perhaps not so interesting as it might be if it were a properly thought out post. It’s that point of the semester where writing anything on topic feels like squeezing grey matter out of my head so that it can congeal sloppily on artificial paper. I ought to [...]
Posted by Molly on July 21, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/the-writing-process/
Essay notes: Hume’s Treatise on Human Nature
I had thought to write on Kant, but I haven’t the time and Kant is in large part trying to salvage something of that which Hume had previously destroyed. So then I thought to write on causality, but first I had to finish our Hume readings for class. He has a very curious conclusion: he’s [...]
Posted by Molly on July 17, 2010
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Nothing But
We’ve been studying Scottish philosopher David Hume for Tutorial these past few classes, and will continue on Monday. I don’t much care for him. He makes me rather sad, actually. As far as I can tell he’s a “don’t know, can’t know, nothing but” kind of philosopher — we don’t know anything except through impressions [...]
Posted by Molly on July 16, 2010
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Amusing Descartes Video
By British comedian Mark Steel. The last bit is especially… Descartes like.
Posted by Molly on July 12, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/amusing-descartes-video/
How sneaky is Descartes?
Ironic, or not? Before I go more thoroughly into this, and at the same time investigate the other truths that can be deduced from it, I wish to remain here for some time in the contemplation of God himself, to ponder on his attributes, and to gaze on, wonder at, and worship the beauty of [...]
Posted by Molly on July 12, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/how-sneaky-is-descartes/
Lecture Review: How well did Hume Read the Buddha?
St John’s has a weekly lecture on Wednesday afternoons for the summer semester; last week I wrote about Mr. Cohen on Miracles and Belief. This week we heard How Well did Hume Read the Buddha? given by St John’s Tutor Michael Bybee. The Saint John’s Graduate Institute, which hosts these lectures has, as you might [...]
Posted by Molly on July 9, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/lecture-review-how-well-did-hume-read-the-buddha/
A Thinking Thing
This is, in part, a continuation of a line of thought I was developing in The Truth by Reason Project, Detached Subjectivity, and Symbolic Unreality, At the time I was working with the language of Kant, then Jacob Kline, and now more so with Descartes. For tutorial we’ve been reading Descartes Meditations. That’s the one [...]
Posted by Molly on July 5, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/a-thinking-thing/
Lecture Review: Miracles and Belief
St John’s has a weekly lecture on Wednesday afternoons for the summer semester. Today’s lecture was given by Mr. Joseph Cohen, a long time tutor in Annapolis, and was titled On Miracles and Beliefs: Spinoza, Hume, et. al. At the beginning of the lecture he mentioned that he ought to say who the “et. al.” [...]
Posted by Molly on June 30, 2010
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The Fear of the Lord
In seminar we’ve been reading Genesis, Exodus, and Job these past two weeks, and something that often comes up is the meaning of the “fear of the Lord.” When people do good things it’s usually explained that they do so because they fear the Lord, as when Abraham is about to sacrifice Isaac, or Moses [...]
Posted by Molly on June 25, 2010
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