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Posted by Molly on January 8, 2011
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In defense of learning art
In the Republic Socrates argued for teaching gymnastics, mathematics, and music (in their more expansive sense) to young people in order to build up certain powers of soul in them. He sees three fundamental powers of soul in the human person — the noetic (reasoning), the spirited (honorable, courageous), and the desiring. The just soul [...]
Posted by Molly on December 11, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/in-defense-of-learning-art/
The Consolation of Philosophy, first impressions
I’ve read about a chapter and a half of Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy, and I must admit, I don’t much care for it at this point. Was the author very well educated and important? Yes, apparently — he translated many of the works of Aristotle (presumably into Latin) in the early Sixth Century, and [...]
Posted by Molly on October 5, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/the-consolation-of-philosophy-first-impressions/
“Existence and Truth”
Fr. Stephen at Glory to God for All Things has an excellent post on the necessity of communion with God for our existence, and not only so that He won’t be angry with us. Fr. Sergius Bulgakov, as a young man who returned to the faith following a flirtation with Marxism, came to an understanding [...]
Posted by Molly on September 25, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/existence-and-truth/
Dynamical Antinomies in Kant’s Prolegomena
Let the title be a warning: it really does read like that. * * * In Part Three, §51 of the Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics Kant presents four transcendent ideas, corresponding to his four categories from the tables of §21. These seem to be the great insoluble problems of metaphysics, and Kant is attempting [...]
Posted by Molly on July 26, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/dynamical-antinomies-in-kants-prolegomena/
Meta-lunacy
This afternoon I came up with a mildly impractical plan to get everything done that needs to be done this coming week; I made up a schedule and colored it in with crayons. I sat down to read Kant’s Prologomena so that I could write on it, and successfully read the first ten pages or [...]
Posted by Molly on July 16, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/meta-lunacy/
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/
Hyperbolic Doubt
What you can’t see is that at one point the cloud was a peculiar greenish color, and there’s a little cloud in front that’s cotton candy blue. Not the sky, mark you, but the cloud. Perhaps if Descartes had spent less time on geometry and more looking at the sky from somewhere in the Southwest [...]
Posted by Molly on July 2, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/hyperbolic-doubt/
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
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/lecture-review-miracles-and-belief/
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