Comments on: Anime and escapism…pathetic editorial filler http://berkles.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/anime-and-escapismpathetic-editorial-filler/ Blogging about anime, politics, philosophy, and everything in between Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:55:24 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: The Animanachronism http://berkles.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/anime-and-escapismpathetic-editorial-filler/#comment-110 The Animanachronism Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:08:04 +0000 http://berkles.wordpress.com/?p=84#comment-110 Heh. To hear my teachers tell it, Kant was probably the only one, yes. I know what you mean about discovering someone else got there first - it's how I feel about Barthes and the whole Death of the Author thing (different sphere of academia, I suppose). I thought one of the fun things about Hume in particular is how his writing seems to clarify things we already know. It's always good if an empiricist's arguments actually match my own experience. Heh. To hear my teachers tell it, Kant was probably the only one, yes. I know what you mean about discovering someone else got there first – it’s how I feel about Barthes and the whole Death of the Author thing (different sphere of academia, I suppose).

I thought one of the fun things about Hume in particular is how his writing seems to clarify things we already know. It’s always good if an empiricist’s arguments actually match my own experience.

]]> By: berkles http://berkles.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/anime-and-escapismpathetic-editorial-filler/#comment-109 berkles Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:35:56 +0000 http://berkles.wordpress.com/?p=84#comment-109 lol and thats what most of those who disagreed with hume said(although reading through the treatise it's hard to imagine too many people with brains enough to hold their own against hume...Kant was the only one i suppose?) I've yet to read the Enquiry although I suppose it will be required of me if I am to get my degree in philosophy. surely by the time I go after my doctorate I'll have read it though. The Treatise wasn't so much brainstretching as it was essential in creating that "hey I always thought that but never spoke up about it". I myself only began reading Hume at 17, but I had a fair idea of the Is-ought problem by the time i was 12 or 13. This is not to brag, but to show that no matter how original you think you are, it's already been done. lol and thats what most of those who disagreed with hume said(although reading through the treatise it’s hard to imagine too many people with brains enough to hold their own against hume…Kant was the only one i suppose?)

I’ve yet to read the Enquiry although I suppose it will be required of me if I am to get my degree in philosophy. surely by the time I go after my doctorate I’ll have read it though.

The Treatise wasn’t so much brainstretching as it was essential in creating that “hey I always thought that but never spoke up about it”. I myself only began reading Hume at 17, but I had a fair idea of the Is-ought problem by the time i was 12 or 13. This is not to brag, but to show that no matter how original you think you are, it’s already been done.

]]> By: The Animanachronism http://berkles.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/anime-and-escapismpathetic-editorial-filler/#comment-108 The Animanachronism Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:36:41 +0000 http://berkles.wordpress.com/?p=84#comment-108 But all we see is that being overweight consistently follows overeating. How do we know there's a connection? Also, throat cancer. I read the <em>Enquiry</em> at school, and I remember it being pretty brainstretching stuff, in a good way. Since that was the abridge version, I guess the <em>Treatise</em> is more in the same vein? But all we see is that being overweight consistently follows overeating. How do we know there’s a connection? Also, throat cancer.

I read the Enquiry at school, and I remember it being pretty brainstretching stuff, in a good way. Since that was the abridge version, I guess the Treatise is more in the same vein?

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