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To someone who often mistook “aesthetics” for “anaesthetic,” the aesthetic experience stood foreign for a very long time. After a brief introduction, I have currently concluded its criteria for a quality experience as: a) Vivid – an absolute, potent sensation which leaves you hapless or euphoric b) Distance – contrary to traditional conventions, one should … Continue reading
Feel the turbines heat. Buckle your seat. Take off. You’re flying! You’re weightless! In neat rows you sit hours on end, staring ahead to the back of someone’s skull. The clicking boots of the flight attendant, whirring engines, crackling ginger ale, cool juts of wind. You’re flying. But flying is basically falling, just in a … Continue reading
Wittgenstein explores the notions of anti-metaphysics. The whole notion of meta cognition is identification of purpose through self discovery and self expansion in the name of purpose. We are given names, we choose to give purpose to them. Names have no underlying, certain, god-given, natural, or predetermined path for its patron. We are cogs in … Continue reading
About Me: My name is Julie; I am a Talons Philosophy 12 student. Likes include Woody Allen, BBC documentaries, and swordplay. Dislikes include sticky things, bad grammar, and dairy. Hope you enjoy my works this year in philosophy 12. Come converse philosophy! Posts: Introduction to Philosophical Inquiry – Negative Freedom is Not a Colon Logic … Continue reading
Wittgenstein, the protagonist to the most dramatic life ever told, becoming the coolest man ever concocted. Ludwig Wittgenstein, was born on April 26, 1889 in Vienna, Austria to a wealthy, industrial, Jewish family. To give you a picture of how wealthy the Wittgenstein were, take a look at this portrait. http://www.all-art.org/symbolism/klimt3a.html That’s a portrait of … Continue reading
As a byproduct of the horrors of the Holocaust, a lost outlook on art, literature, and science arose rampant. From the works of Kurt Vonnegut to Jackson Pollock, a taste for confusion and abstract perspectives is obvious. After the war, in debt and longing for war, the ambiance was rather angsty… skeptical if you will. … Continue reading
To get something out of the way, my mother is alive and well, however, always late. Today was no exception. As I exited the doors of my secondary school, with my unnamed pal with an untouchable lemon pound cake. We waited for my mother to pick me up. And then… we waited some more. FINALLY, … Continue reading
I’m hilarious, and I refuse to believe otherwise; however, it seems I’m not very good at selecting jokes to steal. Like this one… “My puns are just bad, they’re tear-able.” *rips piece of paper with the word pun written on it* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIyrjdkQRKU Bo Burnham) However, the one that comes under most scrutiny is from a Bo … Continue reading
As he looks over Bonaparte’s unconscious body, deciding whether or not to kill him thus preventing war across Europe, Woody Allen ponders the insight of Socrates in the 1975 film, Love and Death. As seen here… PS. Please read this in a Woody Allen voice for optimum enjoyment. “… but murder. What would Socrates say? … Continue reading
From what I understand “negative liberty” is opportunity to act where as “positive liberty” action in itself. We are not always entitled to the opportunity, however we are to the action. Negative liberty the freedom FROM others providing limitations is often what we view freedom as. The freedom to marry who we wish, practice religion we … Continue reading
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