just going to post the editing version of previous entry

[mastiva]

That title seems to sum up what I am going to discuss. First I would like to have a disclaimer: I am not an "expert" in much of what I will discuss; anyone with other information, opinions, or something fun to add and discuss Please feel free Oh, and I should forewarn the reader that I am a student of theatre, hence the heavy handedness with the

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[creases]

Properly speaking, the Romantics were largely a reaction against the Enlightenment. (Kant is a transition figure, but mostly the last Enlightenment guy.)

A lot of my philosophical research is shaped by this very union you see, where we can now take the best from both the classic Rationalists of the Enlightenment and from the Romantics.

! :)

[mastiva]

No surprise that I would lump things together...since my current course is about theatre, it tends to kind of....drift around the 18th and 19th century in a very strange manner. I'll have to go fix that! :) Wonderful that you already have this connection. I believe I have mentioned that I REALLY REALLY want to learn a lot more about philosophy in general. Say, are there any particular books you recommend?

Re: ! :)

[bootdevil]

butting in, but... "philosophy in general"... tho' i'm by no means an expert...

my FAVE to read would have to be Nietzsche. I forget if you're the person I added who had nietzsche in their interests or not, but if not... let me interject that "Beyond Good and Evil", and "Twilight of the Idols/ the Antichrist" (two books together usually available from Penguin Books-- you know, those little yellow-black books) are very good.

As for Kant, Schopenhaur, Russell, Plato, and the rest... I'll let this other person guide you. I'm "read" but not "well read".

You guyz must be in school.

[creases]

I'm doing my PhD in philosophy.

[bootdevil]

cool. seriously. i was majoring in physics AND art back in the late 80s before i dropped out (I'm 38. GRADUATE KID! haha... you regret not doing so, tho' as with life... you tend to not regret the path you chose ['two roads diverge in a wood'] if you "follow your bliss" as Joseph Campbell would say).

But I think I might have actually stuck it out had my interest in philosophy been piqued earlier.

Not going back tho... i'm where i am haha.

But seriously, philosophy PhD = cool. to me.

[creases]

Thanks. It's hard work, but I'm having fun.

[creases]

Well shucks. Philosophy is all over the place, how accessible it is. Depends on what you want to know, what you're interested in, etc. But one of the places I started was Benedictus de Spinoza's Ethics demonstrated in geometrical order. (Most people get wrapped up in the first two parts, but the more interesting stuff happens in the last three. It seems like a staunchly "classical" Rationalist text, but there's a subtext to it you might be interested in.) After that.... Well, Nietzsche, and the French guys: Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze....

Philosophy is the kind of thing you just have to jump in to, I think.

[bootdevil]

that's what I've found

[bootdevil]

creases seems cool too... added them. haha... this LJ seems a good place to find people who will feed my intellectual/depth side. very good! very good! that's the rarest of all finds!

only "people who GET my jokes" comes close in rarity.

hope you don't mind the mass intrusion and -adding.

i no longer go in depth into philosophy in my LJ (in my LJ haha)... but occasionally i will. you know how it is... half-philosopher... half-unstable-monkey... my LJ just accentuates the unstable-monkey side haha. but there's more to me than that.