So Aristotle, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Husserl faced off at the Gnu’s Room. I wore dark glasses and made the case for Aristoteleanism as a way to stop being stupid without becoming crazy. (Stupid = the unexamined life; crazy = believing stuff you can’t coherently live.) At the end the audience voted to keep Aristotle alive and to return the others to the grave. Mission accomplished.
It’s time for more Philosophy at the Gnu’s Room! (I forgot to announce our last one, “Philosophy & Technology,” Oct. 24.) Tonight’s session (Weds., Nov. 14, at 5:00 p.m.) is a panel of Dead Philosophers, at which various department members will be representing their favourite dead philosophers. I’ll be playing Aristotle. Come on by!
You know the Hobbit movie?
No, I mean the animated Hobbit movie.
No, not that one. This one:
Explanation here.
So Dale looks like Prague. And Bilbo marries the princess and they rule Prague together. Wacky!
The first two episodes of Blood and Chrome are online and lookin’ powerful purty. If your bandwidth can handle it, be sure to push the quality up to 1080 and the size to fullscreen:
So there’s no way Coker makes it out of this alive, right?
I’m a tad late announcing this, but the joint BHL/C4SS symposium on left-libertarianism kicks off this week. The first two entries, one by Gary Chartier on how we differ from other flavours of left and libertarian, and the other by me on conflation, are now up. More to come!
Stephanie Murphy’s interview with Gary Chartier, Charles Johnson, Sheldon Richman, and myself about the Center for a Stateless Society and Markets Not Capitalism is now online. (And don’t miss Stephanie’s Markets Not Capitalism audiobook.)
Added bonus for Kevin C.: reggae music in the background!