philosophy | philosophy
May.27.2010
“What’s love got to do with it?” are the words in one of my favorite songs, sung by one of my favorite singers, Tina Turner. Well, I’d like to start this missive with the following question, “What’s luck got to do with it?” My friends; the answer to that question is – “EVERYTHING.”
All you...
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May.13.2010
Reality Hunger – A Manifesto, by David Shields
We’ve suddenly entered an age of choices – as least it seems sudden in retrospect – and this book is not so much a manifesto as a proclamation of the author’s personal choices regarding literature.
It seems here that society...
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Apr.29.2010
In the past few days administrators at Middlesex University in England have decided to terminate all philosophy programs. The news is rocketing through internet and rocking intellectuals to their very cores.
This is not an attack on a mid or low level program. This is an attack on what is...
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Apr.11.2010
My lost crayons [A page from my diary]
Today I visited my childhood residence. It was same room I left before 20 years back, first glance of room was realizing me length of 20 years. Suddenly seven uneven parallel lines of different colors on the wall, attracted my focus,
and I got lost in my...
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Apr.11.2010
Kafka and the True Way
by
David Vognar
Literacy Aide, Jane Addams Hull House Association
"Franz Kafka wrote brilliantly about mankind's muffing up of (albeit imperfect) reality through our reliance on philosophical motivations. This Jewish Czech who suffered a berating father, poor...
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Apr.09.2010
Of all the classes I teach, teaching writing is my favorite. This probably is not a surprise to anyone. There are two moments that never cease to bring a smile to my face. I have learned as much from my students during these moments as I hope they have learned from me.
The first moment occurs...
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Apr.07.2010
Sophie's World is an unusual book I sent to my son for his birthday a few years ago. Sophie's World is essentially the history of philosophy embodied in a story - a story in which a young girl comes home from school to find a letter in her mailbox that says simply, "Who are you?"
The 400 pages...
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Apr.04.2010
“But Mom, how come we’re not religious? I’m missing out on an awful lot. Where are my little white gloves and my shiny patent-leather Mary Janes? How can the Easter Bunny find me if we’re not religious? If we were religious and prayed to God, maybe all this crap wouldn’t happen to us.” ...
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Mar.16.2010
The more we attempt to define and comprehend the profound meaning of life, we discover, at some point, it's not a serious as we had been programmed to believe.Interpreting our lives through the process of story-telling and analogy allows a clearer view of our journey as human beings, and is nothing...
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Feb.12.2010
The image of the Saint of Scholarly Seeking toiling away among moth-eaten books in silent libraries smelling of old wood was a romantic notion.
Botulism and Babel
Jean-Baptiste Botul does not exist, but having been cited and sanctified by a real philosopher, Bernard-Henri Lévy, he has exposed the...
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