Post by Beard_Whisperer on Nov 1, 2012 22:04:14 GMT 2
I am re-taking the first Philosophy class I took when I first went to the college I'm at. The Professor is the reason I went to this college and taking his classes has made the fact that I've gotten stuck here for years due to financial crap worth all the while! Anyway, wanted to reexperience the class that gave me the warmest welcome to a college anyone could perhaps find, and as such have been reading the evolution of Philosophical thought. Right now we are going through David Hume and his book "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" and I am absolutely loving it. People who say Philosophers are boring have obviously never read Hume (or they've been reading too much Locke!) Man's words keep me glued to the pages!
On a less serious note, I took up my professor's recommendation and started reading "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" a week ago. I read the first half of it within 2 days. For those who have not read it, I highly recommend it (even though I have yet to finish it...) It's a book about a 2 dimensional world, in which "people" are essentially just seen as lines. Each person is a different shape (starting from triangles and going up in number of angles to the Nobility, which are circles) and the way in which they distinguish themselves from one another is quite phenomenal. I would go in more detail, but to those who may actually have an interest in reading it, it's just better to be read out of the much more poetic book than my recitation of its contents. None-the-less, the book has given me some pretty interesting thought experiments, and allowed me the pleasure to look at the world in a different way. I need to pay more attention to my Professors' recommendations, because it is obvious they know what they're talking about (at least some of them!)
On a less serious note, I took up my professor's recommendation and started reading "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" a week ago. I read the first half of it within 2 days. For those who have not read it, I highly recommend it (even though I have yet to finish it...) It's a book about a 2 dimensional world, in which "people" are essentially just seen as lines. Each person is a different shape (starting from triangles and going up in number of angles to the Nobility, which are circles) and the way in which they distinguish themselves from one another is quite phenomenal. I would go in more detail, but to those who may actually have an interest in reading it, it's just better to be read out of the much more poetic book than my recitation of its contents. None-the-less, the book has given me some pretty interesting thought experiments, and allowed me the pleasure to look at the world in a different way. I need to pay more attention to my Professors' recommendations, because it is obvious they know what they're talking about (at least some of them!)