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?