balance and scales

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke  reading descartes when in france

http://www.humesociety.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_suicide

thinking fondly of an old classmate jason carroll who always brought the tangential to the table along with the wrong books. for instance gravity's rainbow.  he was so brilliant.  he was reading everything.  so was apple igrek.

it is through them i knew of deleuze and guatarri.

thinking fondly of the spinoza seminar.

also my first philosophy class at governor's school in 93.  we studied locke.

i am so glad to be in the empiricists class as well as the wittgenstein class.
my tastes were very 20th century so all the older stuff is soooo important . . . and familiar . . . and lovely
it is good to be brushing up on  . . .
all the things one might be thinking if one weren't a total nihilist