(no subject)
NO MORE
PHILOSOPHY
FOR THE REST
OF MY LIFE.
EVER.
EVER.
All in all I think I did well. If I don't get an A I will sue the SQA because I took up a booklet of about sixteen sides of lined paper plus another nine and a half in a second. And I rambled and rambled and RECALLED BOTH THE. FUCKING. ENTIRE. ONTOLOGICAL AND CAUSAL ARGUMENTS FOR DESCARTES. I DID ONTOLOGICAL TWICE. And I quothed ye olde geezers, both Messers Bentham and Mill.
LYSANDER: Remind me on Tuesday evening I have my Modern Studies NABs to be doing please?
BRAT: I remember the CHC!
I'm quite relieved, really. Total studying for this exam was from 9am this morning to 12pm today. Like, in the run up, and not just for NABs. If I get an A I will be laughing all my way into university. It's one of those things like sociology where it all just stuck, theory wise, and all I needed to print in my memory was the strengths and weaknesses.
Et. My hand is broken. But, y'know, I wouldn't be getting cocky about it if I didn't have reason. I guess! I went straight to my teacher and babbled to her and she seems quite pleased with what I was giving to my answers.
Although in previous papers, for moral philosophy, you get an example, say wee Jimmy wants to jump the train, but should he?! Apply Kantian theory or Utilitarianism with a side of Rule. No example given, just: "Discuss the contributions of Bentham and Mill to Utilitarian theory." for 30 marks.
Also managed to put Gallileo's imprisonment into my Descartes essay. And call Mill an elitist. And Bentham naive. And probably implied heavily that A.J. Ayer was a tool, but he is quite cool:
At a party that same year held by fashion designer Fernando Sanchez, Ayer, then 77, confronted Mike Tyson harassing the (then little-known) model Naomi Campbell. When Ayer demanded that Tyson stop, the boxer said: "Do you know who the fuck I am? I'm the heavyweight champion of the world," to which Ayer replied: "And I am the former Wykeham Professor of Logic. We are both pre-eminent in our field. I suggest that we talk about this like rational men".[3] Ayer and Tyson then began to talk, while Naomi Campbell slipped out.
Stole'd from Wikipedia.
And I am going now so I can go and have a nice lovely coffee.