Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Etc.
Posted in Culture, Linguistics, life on Mar 3rd, 2008
Saw a post today in which “cache” was misspelled “cachet,” and it reminded of how much it annoys me when people pronounce the word “cache” as if it were “cacher” or “cachet.”
“Cache” is pronounced the same way as “cash,” and is a place where you keep stuff.
“Cacher” (pronounced “cash-ay”) is the French infinitive from which [...]
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, religion on Nov 21st, 2007
We are “as coming from.” We are each “arriving” at whatever moment or place we are.
(E.g.: “I come to you today with news.” “In what capacity are you here?”)
Nietzsche said that we as humans do not “go into the present” without a “remainder.” We are not just our DNA. We have a history that makes [...]
Posted in Art, Culture, Entertainment on Nov 20th, 2007
I love this story:
Queen guitarist May named university chancellor
Seems that Brian May of Queen just completed his Ph.D. in astrophysics, and some university says he’d make a great “figurehead.” He had originally dropped his studies to play in Queen, evidently.
Queen is one of the greatest bands of all time. They were the height of [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Nov 19th, 2007
In one of the two classes I’m teaching at the moment, we’ve moved on to Nietzsche’s On the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life (from Untimely Meditations).
We traced modern philosophy’s fundamental principle — that all human beings have Reason — from Descartes’ Discourse on Method/Meditations on First Philosophy, through Locke’s Second Treatise of Civil [...]
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, politics, religion on Nov 7th, 2007
The Christian Science Monitor has a long piece on conservative Mike Huckabee’s progressive stances on being nice to people. Which is nice.
Time has a shorter piece on how Christians are starting to be nice about divorce. It’s one of those things where a writer expresses shock about how strict other people are. (Which means he’s [...]
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