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I sometimes spend a few weeks thinking about a topic, and then, when I think about writing about it, I get sort of discouraged. I think that since I'm not expert, and haven't devoted time or money to studying it I am not allowed to write about it. I'm not sure where that thought came from. I kind of remember being at St. John's and some tutors discussing how much braver first year students are when approaching a text than, say, the people in the adult classes they had there. 18 year olds rush headlong into analysis, regardless of how wrong they might end up being. I've kind of lost sight of that. Youth allows for such endeavors. I guess a positive way of putting this is that I am "specializing". There are things that I *do* know about.
Anyway, What have I been thinking about?
The idea of history as teleological. The idea that any ideology promoting "progress" implies a goal.
The phenomenon of people who espouse one philosophy on life but act and speak in a way that implies another. A good example would be someone who talks constantly about how evil people are, but act in a way that relies upon the goodness of people, and their kindness. I experience it as well, I speak and think in entirely logical, sort of Cartesian ways, but often act on hunches or gut feelings. I guess this would be the idea of the subconcious.
I have also been thinking very hard about going to school for baking instead of philosophy. And then, get stalled wondering what sort of deranged person has to make that kind of decision.
Anyway, What have I been thinking about?
The idea of history as teleological. The idea that any ideology promoting "progress" implies a goal.
The phenomenon of people who espouse one philosophy on life but act and speak in a way that implies another. A good example would be someone who talks constantly about how evil people are, but act in a way that relies upon the goodness of people, and their kindness. I experience it as well, I speak and think in entirely logical, sort of Cartesian ways, but often act on hunches or gut feelings. I guess this would be the idea of the subconcious.
I have also been thinking very hard about going to school for baking instead of philosophy. And then, get stalled wondering what sort of deranged person has to make that kind of decision.