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Month: November 2008
K*nt F*cker
I was at a bar on Friday. One of my friends says, “Hey Noah, there’s another philosopher here, come talk.” So I go and chat. She wrote a MA thesis on Levinas. But somehow we got to ethics. I started making fun of virtue ethics, which she believed in. Something about me saying she had tomatoes being cultivated in her head got her riled up. Since I had said I was unimpressed with Singer earlier, […]
One way
I took a sculpture class as an undergrad (somehow I fit it in between the 18 philosophy courses, not counting the 3 I sat in on and never missed a day). My professor said that one of his contemporaries had bragged that he had found five ways to represent drapery. This is no mean task, and my professor said he hadn’t a clue about how to go about representing drapery, let alone know five ways. […]