You're making me want to pull out my readers, which I vowed never to do until I recovered from my humanities insanity.
Keep that vow mate, and leave those things tucked away safely wherever they are. They can't hurt you from the bookshelf or box in the spare room (wherever they are)!
If you're getting the philosophy bug again, I'd go and buy some new stuff. If you didn't touch base on Peter Singer much through your undergrad, he's definitely worth a read. It's all fine and dandy to gorge yourself on Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, but a modern twist on some age-old thinking helps to cement your reasons for doing what you already do. The final chapter of "How Are We To Live? - ethics in an age of self interest" is fantastic, and really ties together all the fundamental reasons for not acting like a tosser in the world and opting out of supporting the meat industry's plight to give us all diabolic diseases.
I'm not surprised at all! That's the whole point of it, as far as I'm concerned. No philosopher ever wrote anything remotely interesting that was mundane at the same time. So I won't do it either... I could have used several films from the course but I like the way District 9 works to support my argument.
Philosophy is supposed to be hard! Otherwise I wouldn't have done it in the first place.
Then what is your query? You are stuck but know why anddddd you ... wanted to let people know, instead of changing your approach. I just find those movies super boring especially if they are meant to 'work' on that level... the... case study... pull apart
No, I wanted some opinions on the matter of self, just to see what some people who haven't done the course think. Some of the input was very constructive, and helped me get into the case study with a different approach which really helped to strengthen my argument.
I thank the people who contributed in a positive manner.
Keep that vow mate, and leave those things tucked away safely wherever they are. They can't hurt you from the bookshelf or box in the spare room (wherever they are)!
If you're getting the philosophy bug again, I'd go and buy some new stuff. If you didn't touch base on Peter Singer much through your undergrad, he's definitely worth a read. It's all fine and dandy to gorge yourself on Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, but a modern twist on some age-old thinking helps to cement your reasons for doing what you already do. The final chapter of "How Are We To Live? - ethics in an age of self interest" is fantastic, and really ties together all the fundamental reasons for not acting like a tosser in the world and opting out of supporting the meat industry's plight to give us all diabolic diseases.
Thanks for the tip! I'll hit the libraries and see what I can find. In the end I read a bit of Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto to kill off the immediate urge
Thanks for the tip! I'll hit the libraries and see what I can find. In the end I read a bit of Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto to kill off the immediate urge
That Haraway stuff is awesome! Came up in my special topics course on love, friendship and the good life earlier this semester. I'm not using any of it for my essay though, it doesn't fit in anywhere.
