Good Stuff Wednesday

[sjester]

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.

Comments

[imbrium8.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what the class here is covering - I'm more medieval intellectual history than philosophy - but if there's a medieval philosophy class out there without Abelard, Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux, the various people from St. Victor's (Hugh and Richard come to mind), John of Salisbury, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Boethius and Anselm of Canterbury, then it's missing out on quite a lot.

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.