Suddenly my schooling is somewhat normal

[garran]

Today[1] I went with David and Jeremy to see a production of Bye Bye Birdie whose flaws were not so endearing as ours were, and (for the first time in several years) a complete stranger complimented me on my hair.

I didn't end up taking the LET again, since the vast majority of classes available to me didn't require it. Rachel has politely explained to me that my initial plan to attempt six or seven classes was insane ("I said 'quirky'"), so I'm currently aiming for four:

Beginner's Japanese
Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy or Logic (I haven't decided yet)
Studying the Religions of the World
Introduction to Government Politics (So I'll be in at least one class that Marilee's in.)

On December 6th, I will be able to register.

[1] Though this is stretching the term.

Comments

well,

[(Anonymous)]

Aristotle is quite dry (his texts are all lecture notes, after all), but he also manages to be quite lucid about pretty much everything. I prefer him to Plato, who, for such an idealist, manages to be awfully conservative. My only prejudice against them is that they are BORING.

Still, a discussion of moral philosophy cannot help but include them at least implicitly, because they started the whole dialogue. I'd be surpised if that text of short essays hasn't got something from Aristotle. I find the course description somewhat suspicious, as I don't think Kant is particularly plausible. I haven't read enough John Stuart Mill, but utilitarianism certainly has its roots in Plato's interrogation of the form of absolute good.

I suppose that all philosophy is indebted to the Greeks, so what should it really matter if you skip them? To begin at the beginning is a luxury these days, what with tuition going up and up and up. Also, the syntax in that course blurb you linked to is, how do you say, awkward? Errorful? This is why non-English classes frighten me.

But indeed, I'm in Victoria! And I'm here until the 17th of December, I think. I've missed an awful lot of parties lately, though, so neither of us should feel too bad.

Keri