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Category: Introduction to Philosophy

• Introduction to Philosophy Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life Whatever

  

  Pressing against

  Intro to Philosophy (MWF @ 1pm)–09 Sep 2016 We went through and hit some notions from Paolo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 

  September 9, 2016
• AnarchoCynicism Introduction to Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life Whatever

  The duty of being friends

  M-W-F @ 1:00pm, lecture for 8/31/2016. The relationship of philosophizing (caring as skillfulness of mind) to freedom (the duty-to-be-friends) by way of mindful lineage.

  August 31, 2016
• Introduction to Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life Whatever

  

  Whatification

  First Monday evening class for Fall 2016, Intro to Philosophy. I am treating the afternoon class and the evening class as two very distinct iterations of the same material. For the evening class, like the earlier one, I started with asking, “What is education?” I got very different answers! So…

  August 30, 2016
• Introduction to Philosophy Perennial Philosophy Whatever

  

  Getting under way

  First class for  my 1:00pm iteration of Introduction to Philosophy on M – W – F.

  August 29, 2016
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  Hidden Desire: Nietzsche, Gay Philosopher

  Most folks I know who focus on Nietzsche are very heteronormative. Yet Nietzsche as gay man has always made so much sense to me. Why do folks NOT read Nietzsche as a man who loved men, a man even more trapped by living in a culture where it was easier…

  July 2, 2016
• Art/Skill/Techne Introduction to Philosophy Whatever

  

  Tell all the truth but tell it slant

  Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind — Emily Dickinson

  June 3, 2016