Gerald Dworkin, a philosopher at UC – Davis, has been collecting witty and thought-provoking one-liners. He shares a good set of them here. Some samples:
Dead Certainty: Socrates without a question.
Nietzsche said there’d be eternal recurrences like this.
Spinoza– Wondering Jew.
For the last few years, USU has sponsored a team for Ethics Bowl. It’s like debate, but with less emphasis on “scoring points” than on providing a decent perspective on contemporary moral problems. (Well, in fact, that’s how you score points.) It’s a valuable, fun, and interesting experience. If you are interested, please contact Professor Holberg, or speak to any philosophy faculty member.
The Common Literature Experience this year for incoming freshman and the community at large read Frankenstein. Our own Prof Huenemann, along with Prof McCuskey from English, were the convocation speakers. It was smart and funny and thoughtfully interwoven with the themes of Connections (the importance of a broad, liberal education, etc).
If you missed it, watch the video by clicking the link below (skip to 8:10 or so to get to Huenemann/McCuskey).
http://1560811.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/2014.mp4/0_jyn011w8/21990082
Explained, with admirable artistic flourish, by our own Dr. Kleiner —
This blog gets more visits than one might expect – it’s certainly not huge, but we probably have 30 or so visitors a day on average, and since we don’t post all that often, that surprises me. But I received a notice that we’ve had a recent spike in visitors, and indeed it is true – yesterday and today we’ve had about 60. Why? Well, most of these views have been of a page we published 5 years ago – entitled “Judith Jarvis on Abortion.” Aha! ‘Tis the season for writing papers for Intro to Ethics courses!
(My other blog, huenemanniac, also gets a steady stream of visitors who are either writing papers on Lon Fuller’s Morality of Law, or they are researching the Collier brothers. It’s strange what ends up being a steady attractor of attention!)
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