This is what happens when philosophy majors are allowed to use the internets unsupervised

[rebeccafrog]

Via mad_willy, I bring you an amazingly poorly constructed existentialist quiz. Seriously, the thing is a mess. It's full of typos, poorly edited in general, and nonsensical even by existentialist standards. What kind of existentialism quiz completely ignores Camus, Kierkegaard and Sartre? I strongly suspect the struggling philosopher who wrote this also

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[doctorconquest]

I followed a few leads and found out more about this. It actually sounds pretty interesting. Although I can't find anything online detailing the incident in its entirety, I found a JSTOR entry for an article I can't read all of (http://www.jstor.org/pss/1333550) and a review of a book that one could, in theory, read (http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2001/ND/BR/Lebe.htm).

Surprisingly, the action in question actually was governmental, albeit at a local level, although it was about a teaching appointment rather than about public speaking, which... well, basically nixes the idea that this had to do with freedom of speech directly.

[rebeccafrog]

Thanks for the links! Academic freedom is protected as a free speech issue, so losing a teaching appointment because of prior scholarship would be a First Amendment question. But in this case, he was advocating actual crimes in his writings. While not sufficient to get him arrested, that is sufficient to get him not hired on the grounds that he is not of upstanding moral character.

[de_nial]

Hmmm. Ok, so isn't not including Satre in an Existensialism quiz sort of like not including Freud in a psycho-analysis quiz?

[rebeccafrog]

Pretty much, yeah.