random midnight update

[virginia_bell]

My current philosophy assignment requires to provide an exegetical analysis of the famous allegory of the cave in Plato's Republic (how's that for overt pretension?). For the past hour or so, I've been copying down relevant quotations from the book; I just stumbled upon this bit:

You must go down, then, each in his turn, to live with the rest and

Comments

[virginia_bell]

ANALYSING THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE IS FUN BECAUSE PLATO/HIS MOUTHPIECE SOCRATES EXPLAINS IT TO YOU IN THE NEXT CHAPTER. :DD

*prevents you from further self-harm* What's your paper about?

[wanderlight]

That would be MADE OF AWESOME.

She did vaguely reference a Bible quotation in "Cardboard Ladders" -- I read that somewhere, don't recall it exactly & can't justify as it since I have zero Bible knowledge. our Charlotte is a cool kid. :D

But don't remind me about philosophy, I'm up at 1am researching Immanuel Kant and have basically come to the conclusion that he can go fuck himself. *angryface*

[safebox]

*cuddles Kant protectively* Oh no! What has he done to upset you?

[wanderlight]

Kept me up until two o'clock.

... Hang on, that sounds wrong. What I meant was, I was up until two o'clock am researching his epistemological philosophy for a class seminar. I'm quite fond of Kant actually, his ideas make a great deal of sense, but FIVE HOURS OF SLEEP IS NOT COOL!

[virginia_bell]

Charlotte is quite amazing, yes. :D

But -- but Kant sounds interesting! I mean, all I've read of his work is his "What Is Enlightenement?" essay, which doesn't even begin to approximate the rest of his work. Georgetown, it seems, offers the course PHIL-135 Kantian Ethics this fall. x)

[safebox]

Ftw! a;sdlkads I HEART PLATO'S ALLERGORY. Ahem. But is really is pretty awesomesauce, and does get referenced all over the place.

[virginia_bell]

I HEART IT TOO. I surprised myself by actually quite liking The Republic; hopefully, I'll feel the same way about Aristotle, who we'll be reading next.