So I don't know who's side to take in my philosophy paper - Freud or Locke. They both have stellar points and some not-so stellar point. And I can't fence sit ( Read more... )

Here is Locke summed up.

*ahem*

private property! private property! state of nature! common wealth! statue of nature! PROPERTY! Monarchy is bad!

The end.

A little something funny my grandpa sent me. It's about our society and all the technological advances we've made.

The Outsourced Brain
By David Brooks

The gurus seek bliss amidst mountaintop solitude and serenity in the meditative trance, but I, grasshopper, have achieved the oneness with the universe that is known as pure externalization.

I have ( Read more... )

I've decided that Cassius is an Aristotlian and Brutus is a Platoian.

Aristotle was all about how we have reason and all but we need our senses to complete our reason. We are not born with innate thoughts but form them as we go along. Basically we know nothing until we experience it, feel it, know it.

Plato on the other hand was all about ideals - ( Read more... )

The question everyone wants to answer.

For me - it's a quest I am only dimly aware of. It's not something I go out of my way to try and answer. I am who I am - whether I really exist or not is debatable. But, for now, we shall assume I exist, and that this world is more than a micro-pixel on Al Gore's slide show.

I am me. That is who I am.

People ( Read more... )