an empty ship

Unsurprised much.

Which philosopher are you? Your Result: Sartre/Camus (late existentialists)   The world is absurd. No facts govern it. We live well once we truly accept the world's absurdity. YOU give our life's meaning, and YOU control your world. (see Nietzsche for very closely tied beliefs) --This quiz was made by S. A-Lerer.
W.v.O. Quine / Late Wittgenstein
Nietzsche
Aristotle
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Immanuel Kant
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- Take a song people usually interpret as being about a romantic relationship.
- Interpret instead as a relationship between the finite/mortal and the universe/deity/ultimate/what-have-you.
- Note improvement in song.

So I was aware that Emerson was influenced by Thomas Carlyle while abroad in Europe, but no one bloody well bothered to tell me that it was John Stuart Mill who effectively introduced them (THE J. S. Mill of Utilitarianism--w00t!)

As the semester draws to its close, I reflect that my Philosophy of Religion class has been one of my favorite classes ever.

This is partly because I really like the professor (in fact, when I talked to him during office hours, I was a little starstruck and my social anxiety popped up a bit, despite the fact that everything he said was quite complimentary and he went so far as to ask if I was in fact a philosophy major).

It’s also partly because I am not invested in either a theist or atheist viewpoint. This was not the case a couple years ago. I was a staunch atheist for a long time, after being raised in a conservative monotheism and rejecting it. Having seen the issue from both those angles, I can say that it’s liberating for me to take an agnostic stance on things. I have no defensiveness when I read these essays, only curiosity.

The course introduced me to my favorite 20th-century philosophers of religion:

John Hick (pluralist christian)

William Rowe (“friendly atheist”)

Anthony Flew (atheist-allegedly-turned-deist) [Actually, I didn’t much like this fellow, but I want to read his book because it would be fascinating.]