In preparation for the upcoming forum on three different religious traditions, I thought Tom Lehrer’s thoughts on “brotherhood” would be worth a listen.
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Spinoza hits broadway!
You know, Spinoza — “perky and adorable, a brash but modest young fellow whose head is amusingly stuffed not with baseball statistics but with incisive conclusions about God, nature and the universe.” See the NYT review of a new play about Spinoza.
Career considerations
Considering a career in law or medicine? Here is a NYT article about the disappointments many people feel when they get into them. (Alumni, feel free to chime in about your own experiences.)
You might be a Philosophy major if ….
… you get impatient in your other classes when they seem to spend all their time on merely empirical details.
… you lose an hour trying to figure out why “used to” makes sense in the sentence “I used to do that, but don’t anymore.”
… you find yourself not reading your assigned philosophy texts because you’re too busy reading other philosophical works.
… you write Socratic dialogues on the nature of the substance found in a Taco Time burrito.
… you search YouTube for videos on Leibniz’s Monadology.
… you pause when asked “How’s it going?” because you’re not sure what “it” refers to.
(Any others?)
New videos
Hey kids! Check out the new video section, on the right, after the blogroll.
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