Past posts for the new semester
A collection of posts relevant to my courses this semester:
Before Philosophy: Homer’s world
Why does philosophy begin with Thales?
Philosophy begins: Thales’ revolution
Socrates’ two bad arguments for not escaping
Quotations from Apology and Crito on reason and character
Who is the real father of modern philosophy? [Descartes versus Bacon]
Freud and original sin
Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School [on the usefulness of Freud's theories to the Frankfurt School's social psychology and politics]
The best footnote ever [on micturation]
John Dewey on education as socialization
Why C. S. Lewis gives me the creeps
Freud and original sin [with a comparison of Lewis's and Freud's views on human nature]
Ayn Rand [at The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics [pdf]
Roark and Keating: First meetings
Toohey’s five strategies of altruism
Gordon Prescott: Heidegger’s disciple?
Tags: Ayn Rand, C. S. Lewis, Francis Bacon, Homer, Homer's Iliad, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, Original Sin, Rene Descartes, should Socrates escape, Sigmund Freud, Socrates, Thales, The father of modern philosophy, Why Thales is the father of philosophy
