Good Stuff Wednesday
Nov. 9th, 2006 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Because it would be a damn good thing for me to think more about things that are good in life than the things that are bad/dragging me down, I'll finally join the GSW bandwagon. Don't know how consistent I'll be about it, but a start is a start. So here goes.
1. Good post-Halloween party last Saturday.
2. Rumsfeld is gone.
3. Democratic control of the House and presumably the Senate as well.
4. South Dakotans sensibly voted down the abortion ban.
5. Actually being intellectually engaged for once this semester in Medieval Philosophy this morning.
6. Having awesome friends.
7. Only a month until the end of the semester; I can make it.
This week I'll stop with seven, the number of completion.
1. Good post-Halloween party last Saturday.
2. Rumsfeld is gone.
3. Democratic control of the House and presumably the Senate as well.
4. South Dakotans sensibly voted down the abortion ban.
5. Actually being intellectually engaged for once this semester in Medieval Philosophy this morning.
6. Having awesome friends.
7. Only a month until the end of the semester; I can make it.
This week I'll stop with seven, the number of completion.
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Date: 2006-11-09 09:20 pm (UTC)Of course, Aquinas wrote enough complicated stuff to occupy a whole class - it just doesn't give any idea of the breadth of philosophical thought in the Middle Ages.
Ooh, Bernard Silvestris, too. And maybe Gregory the Great.
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Date: 2006-11-09 09:38 pm (UTC)Topicwise, we're doing issues of faith & reason, existence/nature of god, free will, the problem of universals, and the nature of the intellect. Not so much with language and logic, which is the stuff I'm interested in, so that is one of the reasons I'm dissatisfied with the class (see also: lectures). At least now I have a starting point and an anthology of texts. Plus my Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, though that was not required or even optional for the class.