#philosophy major problems

[a-quaint-device]

to SEPTA's credit, it may not memento my mori but it sure as hell embodies sartre's notion of radical freedom

[1flown]

When I get drunk I always ended up trying to talk about philosophers with people. Tonight's philosopher of choice was Wittgenstein lol

[ivyleagueheart]

If this book is unintelligible to anyone and hard on the ears, the fault, as I see it, does not necessarily lie with me.

On the Genealogy of Morality | Nietzche

[claireifythat]

My ethics class is so incredibly boring.  I wasn’t really expecting it to be interesting, but I thought that would be because I’m too advanced for it.  Nope, it’s because the professor is approaching this interesting, dynamic, important subject as dryly and slowly as possible.

[claireifythat]

Sometimes I spend so much time with disability activists that I forget how pervasive ableism is in society at large, and then my philosophy professor makes fun of me for suggesting that psychotic people (and other mentally ill people) are capable of meaningful contributions to the field.

[claireifythat]

Finally finished my meta-ethics paper.  If all goes well, I’ll never have to think about hermeneutic moral fictionalism ever again.  Which is good, because I’m still not 100% sure what it is.

[a-quaint-device]

more xmas thoughts

the song “Frosty The Snowman” is a quintessential example of nihilism

Frosty, brought to life by sheer happenstance, recognizes his imminent and inevitable demise, and decides in the face of utter oblivion, to enjoy his life anyway, because what else is there to do??

the Traffic Cop, as the harbinger of Death, alerts Frosty that his time has come, but even as the moment arrives, he urges his young friends “don’t you cry!” because just as his birth was happenstance, so is his end, and thus it is pointless to assign meaning to those points in time

[a-quaint-device]

i tried to watch Ouran High School Host Club with cobaltseas and I had an existential crisis about the ethics of wealth