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Comment on Psychology by Babaloo Reinhardt

Babaloo Reinhardt — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:28:04 +0000

Ah, Elliot’s party, I only remember a fraction of that particular night.
Hegel is incredibly complicated and some say a terrible writer (in terms of technicality) and that may be why we don’t study him at university - I think this is the reason Matt gave for dropping phenomenology and Husserl. But, that’s just speculation. Also, I think with Nietzsche, Kant and Wittgenstein we may have enough on our plates. Not to mention that it is probably a good idea to read these first before moving on to Hegel. Furthermore, I think Marx and Engels need serious consideration when reading Hegel, and the list goes on and on and on…
I, embarrassingly, haven’t read that particular work, though Matt did suggest it to better understand Sartre. However, I got a few minor works from the library and also some commentaries on his major works. However, it is essential reading and I shall try to read it once I’ve finished all the other books I’m always in the middle of reading. For some reason I always want to read the stuff that is just over the edge of what I ’should’ be reading (Deleuze being a prime example).

p.s. On the issue of the courses, I shall have to get in touch with Matt. I should be doing the dissertation in place of Freud, along with the other three. Strange.

Comment on Psychology by incognitio

incognitio — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:19:38 +0000

We’ve spoken about Hegel before at Elliott’s party, you quoted his view of reality. He’s a fascinating philosopher, I am still in the introduction at the moment, only started properly today. I look forward to his main arguments, I am surprised that we are not studying him in Uni.

I suppose so yeah, you’re doing a disertation aren’t you, so you might miss a course. I have mine up as scheduled. I am also have Kant and Witt, including fundamental texts and nietzsche.

I am very surprised that your Existentialism mark was not a 1st, I thought you’d get top marks for that as you really like it, with Sartre and all (I remember you telling me that you didn’t want to do too many Sartre essays though for variation though so fair enough).

Have you read the phenomenology of mind? (I accidentally bought both phenomenology of mind and spirit lol, not realizing that they are the same thing.)

Comment on Psychology by Babaloo Reinhardt

Babaloo Reinhardt — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:02:52 +0000

Well done, congratulations.
I am on the Internet, however, it’s all a little bit temperamental so I may not be able to reply as quickly as usual.

So, you’re reading the master. Hegel is very interesting, I did quite a bit of research on him for the Simone De Beauvoir essay - I found him far more interesting than De Beauvoir (nearly fucked the essay up on that count).
I’m reading Bergson ‘Time & Free Will’ at the moment - it is apparently the book that Sartre claimed inspired him to write, so maybe it will inspire me to get off my arse and do something.

Also, are ALL the philosophy courses still on for next year, because I can only find two mentioned on the student portal. When I look into ‘courses you are attending’ it only says the Freud one and the Nietzsche one???

Anyways, strangely enough Existentialism was my worst result (2:1) but I still got a good first overall, so the exam wasn’t really that important.

Comment on Psychology by incognitio

incognitio — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:20:11 +0000

Hey, welcome back. I knew you’d like this one, you tend to have an aversion to the subject, as I am slowly developing.

Hopefully we can continue our philosophical discussions now; I been real busy working and reading, not much active engagement with philosophy.

I did real well, got a 1st in the Existentialism, which is probably the only one worth mentioning; the rest were 2:1s and I did crap in psychology afer I just stopped trying. Passed them all though, pretty comfortably, looking forward to next year; especially the Heidegger group. I just got Being and Time; but I am reading Hegel first.

Comment on The Archive of the Hopeless by VaxCarma

VaxCarma — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:06:30 +0000

Thank you

Comment on Psychology by Babaloo Reinhardt

Babaloo Reinhardt — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:02:13 +0000

This quote is very Sartre. I likes it.
I have just got back on the Net, don’t know how long it’ll last, though.
Also, d’you do well in the exams?

Comment on On the Irony of Desire by incognitio

incognitio — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:32:37 +0000

Bliss must not be mistaken for contentment either, for contentment means that I have everything I have ever wanted/desired, it has a prerequisite step of desire being fulfiled. Bliss does not have this condition lurking in its foundations, bliss in a sense ignores desire; bliss negates desire, without fulfilling it, whereas contentment demands fulfilment of desire as a step prior to itself.

Let me know if there’s any more clarity that could be added.

Comment on Hope by incognitio

incognitio — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:19:36 +0000

The peculiar thing about Nietzsche’s quote is the word ‘reality’ that plays a massive role in the whole sentence; it reduces hope to a relationship between the person hoping and that in which the hope is in, in this case reality.

So much needs to be said about this word before Nietzsche can even begin to convince me of his statement.

Furthermore, there’s an ambiguity in the very sentence, which isn’t so uncharacteristic of Nietzsche. The ambiguity lies at the beginning of the sentence on his use of the connective ‘in’. “Hope in reality”: as directed to reality (hope in…), or hope in general when engaged in reality (hope within…)? Is the ‘in’ an abbreviation of within or another way of saying ‘directed-at’? Or even did he intend a sentence of this form: “hope, in reality, is the worst…”. It’s quite difficult to tell from just the quote, it would be interesting to get into it, if you could remind me what page, in the genealogy, this is in?

Comment on Sonnet #1 by incognitio

incognitio — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:54:14 +0000

Thank you, I really appreciate your comment. I had a very similar idea to what you read from it - we run and run until there’s nowhere else to run, we can’t run away from the inevitable even though we spend our whole life trying; so what we do in the end is just give in and run towards it, with the last breath we have left. Our life then becomes as you say a journey, of what you do to run away from the inevitable, that journey becomes everything, the running becomes all of one’s life content.

Comment on Sonnet #1 by joyfulpraisegirl

joyfulpraisegirl — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:34:28 +0000

I came upon this randomly, but I really enjoyed this. Your poem tells a story and you depicted it beautifully. The ending line is my favorite part. I always imagine life as a race to be run, and where it ends everyone knows..but the journey between is what it came down to. Lovely.