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 →
Stepping into the River of Personhood
Hacking’s book Rewriting the Soul is an example of what I think philosophy has finally managed to accomplish in modern times: reconciling empirical science with pure thought. It’s like breath of fresh air. He uses the case studies of people with dissociative identity disorder to discuss what it means “to be a person”, among other things. His […] Continue reading →
The History of Identity
Fanon: What is culture? Foucault: What is sexuality? Hacking: What is identity? I haven’t finished reading all of Hacking’s book, but what did strike me so far is his apparent question (above) throughout the book. What is identity; do we have one? What … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Is it the soul?
When I read anything, I know that theres a gist to the whole thing that takes prevalence over other ideas that are briefly mentioned within the text. That obviously relates back to the text we read during the last week. … Continue reading → Continue reading →