Archive for October, 2005

An Idiot’s Guide to Philosophy

October 29, 2005

by Jason Stotts 1. Metaphysics Formal: The study of being qua being Idiot: The study of all that shit I see around me. 2. Epistemology Formal: The study of acquiring and validating knowledge Idiot: What the hell do I know and how the hell do I know it? 3. Ethics Formal: The study of intentioal [...]

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Does Ethics Presuppose Metaphysics?

October 29, 2005

by Jason Stotts Yes. Automatically Generated Related Posts:No Related Posts

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A Sad Day

October 27, 2005

by Jason Stotts It’s quite a sad day for me to know that we as a race have retrogressed so far that we are no longer able to shine light upon our own actions and see them for what they are. People have become so pragmatic that they have lost the ability to think in [...]

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A Few Good Men

October 25, 2005

by Jason Stotts I was recently was having a conversation with one of my friends, Sandy, and we were talking about whether you should care what others think of you. This got me thinking about whether there is any role for outside evaluation to enter into your conception of yourself or whether your idea of [...]

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Diversity – Overhauled

October 12, 2005

by Jason Stotts I wasn’t happy with the first Diversity essay and after getting alot of helpful criticism from Scott, Mir, and Matt, I’ve decided to scrap the old one and start over, leave me comments and let me know what you think before it goes to print! —————————————- I’d like to add my two [...]

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Merciful Mirth

October 7, 2005

by Jason Stotts I must thank Matt Morrell heartily for introducing my to Despair which is perhaps the funniest website that I have seen in a long time. For example look at this: They have all sorts of amazing posters that will make you think “Wow…” Automatically Generated Related Posts:No Related Posts

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October 5, 2005

If we act from emotion and not our reason, we will most certainly make our situation worse. If we follow our heart, or worse our loins, instead of our heads – we will end up regretting our actions. Automatically Generated Related Posts:No Related Posts

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Wow

October 2, 2005

by Jason Stotts Some things need no explanation; this, however, is not one of those things. (Picture courtesy of the Homicidal Quaker) Automatically Generated Related Posts:No Related Posts

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