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21 November 2005 ago in
General.
My ideal library:
- The complete works of Heidegger (the German version has been out for a while, there hasn’t been a standard English version yet…especially since not all have been translated)
- Same with Nietzsche
- Complete works of Kierkegaard. i guess i’d go for the English standard translation as i don’t know Dutch very well (i.e. at all).
- At least Church Dogmatics, unabridged, by Karl Barth (all 5 volumes with all the various parts). i’m not sure if i’d want/need any other of Barth’s works, nor am i sure that i want the English standard translation or the original German.
- Aquinas’s Summa Theologicae, parallel Latin and English version.
- Tillich’s Systematic Theology (wow, something in English!)
- Kant’s three Critiques (Pure Reason, Practical Reason, Judgement), plus the Prolegomena. English translation (i don’t think there’s a standard translation, but i’d be partial to Kemp-Smith’s translation).
- Various French philosophers (Badiou, Derrida, Deleuze, and Foucault) major works.
- Major works of Wittgenstein (Brown Book, Blue Book, Tractatus, etc)
- Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Logic
- Various major works of the Greeks (Plato, Aristotle, Socrates) and Pre-Socratics
- Various other works (Zizek, MacIntyre, Plantinga, etc)
- Whatever else i forgot to mention
Of course, for it to be the ideal library, i will have read all of those as well.
Ha. Go figure.
| You Should Get a PhD in Liberal Arts (like political science, literature, or philosophy) |
 You’re a great thinker and a true philosopher.You’d make a talented professor or writer. |
i haven’t read much Machiavelli, though:
| You Are Somewhat Machiavellian |
 You’re not going to mow over everyone to get ahead…But you’re also powerful enough to make things happen for yourself.You understand how the world works, even when it’s an ugly place.You just don’t get ugly yourself – unless you have to! |
Published on
19 November 2005 ago in
General.
Looking for the Back to School 2003 issue of Abercrombie & Fitch’s A&F Quarterly because the majority of the content was authored by none other than Slavoj Zizek. (link)
The things you discover when doing research for a paper…
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18 November 2005 ago in
General.
Update:
(1) i don’t want to write any more papers.
(2) i still have 4 left to do.
(3) My 15-page Philosophy paper will be a re-visit to Divine Omniscience and Free Will (which was my undergrad thesis), but with a Heideggerean (and Zizekean, Vattimoan, and Badiouan) twist on how “belief” should be defined in postmodernity and beyond.
(4) 12-page Islam paper will be on Sunni theology.
(5) 5-page Psych of Religion paper (part 3) will be re-visit to the last one (Messianic Judaism) but from a different perspective (instead of Intrinsic/Extrinsic, it will be Coping and Attribution).
(6) 1-page write-up on a movie we watched on Sufism in Islam to focus on the mystical element and its opposition to systematization.
(7) U2 has always been cool.
Published on
18 November 2005 ago in
General.
Updated site a bit. Got an animal. Also, i know have a word meter for my thesis:
