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The Vindications of “My blog post is not late…YES!”
Discard the title. excuse my word vomit: Reading “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, I found myself very confused to where I stood with Wollstone on her arguments. One thing that I feel really strongly about with Wollstone was her argument that went along the lines of rationality and how women should stop using […] Continue reading →
Paine
I can see where Burke is coming from. Revolution is chaotic, passionate, and perhaps infectious — he didn’t want the English to break away from their customs in a similar manner, but rather, in a cautious way with not too much change to challenge how things usually are. But sometimes there needs to be radical […] Continue reading →
Paine
As always, I found the lecture to be more interesting than the book as it reinforces all of the main ideas some of which I don’t always understand right away. Also, during lectures there’s always statements that capture my attention … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Paine
Alright, because I am supposed to actually do my post on Paine for this week instead of Hacking…. Here it is! After today’s lecture on Paine, I really wished I understood Hobbes better! And not to say that I’m fully clueless on Hobbes, I know the general gist of what he’s saying (the natural state […] Continue reading →
mr. thomas paine’s rights of man
ok first of all let me just admit that i really dropped the ball this week haha. i was about to dig into paine but then got the various emails about the wollstonecraft reading and panicked and thought that we … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Before Paine, Hacking
Okay, so the title for this blog post doesn’t make sense. I feel like I haven’t been making many blogs posts on the texts we have been reading so… Before I talk about Paine, I want to talk about Hacking. Later I’ll be making another post about Fanon, though we read Black Skin, White Masks quite a […] Continue reading →
The Right of a Rant
This week we’re reading RIghts Of Man by Thomas Paine, and I’m finding this book very hard to get through. Firstly, it is very historically based, and history is not my strongest subject. I’m knowledgable in a few key parts … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Rights of Man
I found Thomas Paine’s book “Rights of Man” a little hard to get through – there were some interesting moments but I felt like I had to sift through pages of criticism of Burke to find them. I have studied the French Revolution in great depth but I didn’t know there was such a response […] Continue reading →
the Pain of Paine
Yo, So here comes yet another post about how I didn’t comprehend the reading and how I feel like a complete idiot and reject. I will admit this right now. The first few chapters of the book are complete write … Continue reading → Continue reading →
What is truth?
There is something that has left me puzzled in Hacking’s text. What is truth? If memory is perhaps false, or repressed or just plain forgotten, how can we tell what happened? If we can’t tell what happened in the past, … Continue reading →
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