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The Philosophy Program at McNeese State University
What is the Philosophy Club?
The Philosophy Club meets regularly, and encourages everyone to attend, whether you have a formal or passing interest in philosophy. These discussions can help to tease out issues not covered in class, or serve as a chance for you to learn by doing. Philosophy is not a set of facts to be memorized - it is a method of thinking. The more you "do" philosophy, the better your understanding of the concepts and methods will be. Like your muscles, your brain is toned by practice. Many students find philosophy to be the most difficult field they have ever studied, precisely because it teaches you new ways to think. The Philosophy Club gives you the chance to get your feet wet in an environment that is collegial and casual.
Where: The Mariner Room, upstairs in the New Ranch
When: 3:00 PM every Monday during the academic year.
For more information about the philosophy program at McNeese State University click here. To see the Inside McNeese feature on the philosophy club click here
Where: The Mariner Room, upstairs in the New Ranch
When: 3:00 PM every Monday during the academic year.
For more information about the philosophy program at McNeese State University click here. To see the Inside McNeese feature on the philosophy club click here
Current Members
- Dr. Todd Furman (faculty)
- Dr. Johannes Bulhof (faculty)
- Dr. Matthew Butkus (faculty)
- Jerome Marcantel (faculty)
- Chris Mireles (President)
Blog Roll
Links to Philosophical Organization
Philosophy Clubs in Louisiana
Undergraduate Philosophy Journals
Texts and Resources
MIT OpenCourseWare: New Courses in Linguistics and Philosophy
Yale OpenCourseWare
Current Philosophical Conversation
Great Books in Philosophy (audio books)
Philosophy Sound Bites (podcast)
Philosopher's Zone (podcast)
Project Syndicate
TEDTalks (video)
Blog Archive
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Based on a work at msuphilosophyclub.blogspot.com.
2 comments:
Would Kant take a break for Mardi Gras? What if everyone took a break for Mardi Gras?
All educators are immoral...Berlin on Kant in the 1950 letter to Kennan:
If pushed to the extreme, this doctrine would, of course, do away with all education, since when we send children to school or influence them in other ways without obtaining their approval for what we are doing, are we not "tampering" with them, "moulding" them like pieces of clay with no purpose of their own? Our answer has to be that certainly all "moulding" is evil, and that if human beings at birth had the power of choice and the means of understanding the world, it would be criminal; since they have not, we temporarily enslave them, for fear that, otherwise, they will suffer worse misfortunes from nature and from men, and this "temporary enslavement" is a necessary evil until such time as they are able to choose for themselves--the "enslavement" having as its purpose not an inculcation of obedience but its contrary, the development of power of free judgement and choice; still, evil it remains, even if necessary.
No wonder Socrates would take no money for his teachings.
"Tell me, then, whether you agree with and assent to my first principle, that neither injury nor retaliation nor warding off evil by evil is ever right. .." -- Plato, "Crito"
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