Blake is Bleak? Or is he Lively? ;)
Hello, friends! For today, I’d like to pose two questions: A. Are Blake’s poems “beautiful”? B. In what ways do Blake’s poems fit with the ideas of Romanticism? In what ways are they different? Now, before the people who are in love with Blake’s poetry burn me at the stake like a little boy lost […]
Racial issue in “the Little Black Boy”
In the poem “the Little Black boy”, Blake carefully chooses the speaker as a child. I think he does this so that when the boy asks questions, it is not considered rude because the little boy is asking the question without the intention of being racist but because he is just purely curious. The child wants to know why “his […]
Rousseau’s Version of Happiness
So Rousseau says that the savage man is happier than the civilized man… Therefore, is it wrong for man to rely on tools and still retain the ability to carry out normal activities? (Activities include running long distances or using bare hands to break things apart). Many would argue that the savage man has only […]
Rousseau on Seeing and Knowing
-I had intended to post this before seminar today, but I haven’t blogged since my introduction so I’ll admit that I actually forgot how to post on my blog. I’ve figured it out now.- Seeing as our theme for the … Continue reading →
The “About Me” that I Never Posted
Despite it being a little late in the game, there’s no such thing as a bad time for a thorough introduction. My full name is Brandon Graeme (GRAY-um) Geißendorf (GUY-send-ORF), and I was born on November 18th of ’97 to two beautiful, loving, and vertically challenged parents. Yes. They’re both relatively short. (Also, neither are […]
Alexander Supertramp and Rousseau
In the film Into The Wild, Christopher McCandles, adopts the name “Alex Supertramp” to fully reject the society he grew up in, as he literally goes “Into the Wild”. For those who haven’t watched the film or read the book, I highly recommend it; based on a true story, we follow Christopher’s journey to the […]
To be, or not to be… That is my question to Hobbes
Okay so this is a late post on the Leviathan but here it is… Hobbes seems to have conflicting religious views since he is saying one thing but acting another. He seems to be Christian but says that he does not believe in incorporeal existence. This leads to believe that Hobbes may not be Christian, but actually […]
Rousseau and Hedonism
In high school I had a teacher who briefly posed a philosophical situation to the class which brought forth hedonistic principles. To simplify, the situation was that there was a box that one could go into and you would be fed happiness through artificial stimulation of the brain. While in the box you cannot communicate […]
Le plus fort n’est jamais assez fort pour être toujours le maître
“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master” – Rousseau Rousseau’s Discourses on Inequality is an attempt to find the origin of inequality in society. Rousseau talks about the rich, the poor, the strong and the weak. I want to focus on what he calls the “Law of the Strongest”. “It therefore seems to […]
My post from last year on Hobbes’ Laws of Nature
I said in class I’d post a link to this in case anyone is interested. It’s here on the site, but kind of buried. Here’s a direct link to it on my blog. I still agree with these points, but I’m not sure they go much further than what we already discussed in seminar this […]