2010 Fall Proseminar Professor Blog

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On this page, you'll find my "after class" blogs for the course. I'll send them as email to the class.

1st Class, August 31, 2010

Great start gang. I hope you feel oriented to the course and have a sense of the possibilities for our work. I took away some helpful information about your interests, which I'll be working on. For your part, I hope you found the fist discussion useful for thinking about your assumptions about philosophy. Definition turns out to be a focus in some of our work on method, so don't stop thinking about how you define philosophy. Consider a "thin" definition, like "evaluation of arguments and points of views on basic questions of reality and existence" as well as "thicker" ones, like "the love of wisdom". The article by Hadot for next week should connect with this issue.

Please start your browsing, along with the reading for next week. It's not too early to rough in your grading scheme on the course website.