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Simone Weil The Need for Roots
Menang:
--- Quote from: mel_77777 on May 23, 2011, 10:54:25 pm ---I think the notions of 'do not murder' and 'do not steal' can again be seen as deriving from ressentiment. It's the slave morality right there, the birds of prey killing the lambs, so the lambs say it is wrong to murder so they can be seen as good.
Furthermore, i don't necessarily agree that these are universally accepted as such, but are more so dictated by the scoiety in which one lives. The killing of Osama Bin Laden for example was celebrated by many.
Anyway, haha i think we may need to agree to disagree here.
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I agree with agreeing to disagree. :P
Although, to be fair, you had some really strong points. :)
Dr.Lecter:
This shit is subjective bro
Menang:
We started on Weil last week - as a person her life sounds amazingly crazy. It'd be interested to read further about her ideas.
What do you guys think about her philosophy so far?
Ghost!:
--- Quote from: Menang on June 04, 2011, 11:57:13 pm ---We started on Weil last week - as a person her life sounds amazingly crazy. It'd be interested to read further about her ideas.
What do you guys think about her philosophy so far?
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Yeah, so did we! Are you having your SAC before the GAT? So little time to learn compared to the work spent on this previous semester just gone by. To make matters worse, a friend of mine thinks we shall be spending roughly two weeks per philosopher in Unit 4, it's going to be a lot of commitment.
Couldn't agree more! She did so much in such a short life, and was had an influential involvement in the lives of so many famous people! How much work have you covered so far in class? Her work personally is a little dull, although I suppose anyone's work seems dull when studied following the explosive writing of Nietzsche. It's a difficult to find any possible criticisms of her work as well, as this is the first year she has been included on the curriculum and therefore isn't a part of any past examiners reports! :/
Menang:
--- Quote from: Ghost! on June 05, 2011, 04:11:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: Menang on June 04, 2011, 11:57:13 pm ---We started on Weil last week - as a person her life sounds amazingly crazy. It'd be interested to read further about her ideas.
What do you guys think about her philosophy so far?
--- End quote ---
Yeah, so did we! Are you having your SAC before the GAT? So little time to learn compared to the work spent on this previous semester just gone by. To make matters worse, a friend of mine thinks we shall be spending roughly two weeks per philosopher in Unit 4, it's going to be a lot of commitment.
Couldn't agree more! She did so much in such a short life, and was had an influential involvement in the lives of so many famous people! How much work have you covered so far in class? Her work personally is a little dull, although I suppose anyone's work seems dull when studied following the explosive writing of Nietzsche. It's a difficult to find any possible criticisms of her work as well, as this is the first year she has been included on the curriculum and therefore isn't a part of any past examiners reports! :/
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Exactly! After Nietzsche, Weil seems a little anticlimatic. Personally, though, I think I'll enjoy Weil. She's quite refreshing in asking us to help others, after the focus on the individual from Callicles and Nietzsche, and to en extent even Aristotle.
We haven't read much (literally one page in) but our SAC will be after the GAT, last week of term so we do still have some time.
Is yours going to be an essay SAC?
We did essays on Nietzsche, so Weil's going to be a socratic dialogue.
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