I’ve run into major problems today with attempting to define things. Apparently life escapes definition. At lunch today Michael, Me, and Trey got into an argument about freedom. (I think this is what they were saying, at least this is what Trey was arguing for) According to them we have very little freedom because there are consequences for a majority of my actions. I say that freedom is independent of the consequences. I define freedom as having the ability to do something.<\/p>\n
In example: if you are in jail, then you still have the freedom to escape the jail.<\/p>\n
I think that we negate our freedoms for concerns that can sometimes be described as non-existent. I don’t scream now, but i certainly have the freedom to do so. It is irrelevant that the consequences are there. <\/p>\n
I also think i pissed mealymel off by attempting to define humanities, or at least asking for a definition of humanities. What the hell is the definition of humanities?
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\nWhere does my desire for definition come from? In think it is because recently funding has been such that we are forced to justify the need of our departments. Not to long ago, the philosophy department was on the block for being cut from the university of louisiana in lafayette. This concerned me of course because it would nullify whatever benefits my degree could afford. The reason it was there was not because it wasn’t usefull, but because it was considered non-completor. This means it hasn’t produced the necessary amount of graduates in a certain amount of years.<\/p>\n
During this dilemma, i was talking to Mr. Kinsella and apparently they were devising a degree plan for the humanities study. Soon students will be able to get a bachelor’s in humanities. It was at this time that i asked him what he concieved the humanities department as studying. He gave me his conception of it and i’ve been working with it since. They were going to add the humanities degree plan, and effectively destroy the philosophy department. Two seperate acts that are not in any way connected except that it is occuring at the same time by the university. (i’m not saying that it was a concious effort to replace philosophy with humanities, it is just coincidental).<\/p>\n
So that is why i am interested in defining disciplines. Is it wrong to want to get a summarization of what it is your studying?<\/p>\n
Identity is inherent in definition. When i say i’m a student of philosophy, you assume that i can give an understandable description of the discipline. If i say i’m an american, you can assume i can give a desciption of what being an american is to me. Our identities have defintiions built within them. Much like i think we should define numbers so we can validly describe what the truths are behind mathematics, i also believe we should attempt to offer definitions of what it is we claim to do. <\/p>\n
Hello i’m D (also known as arglor, etc.). I am a student of philosophy, concerned student of ethics, student of film, student of art in general, blogger, blog consumer, consumer of video game technology, atheist, qualifier for a humanitarian minor, qualifier for a religious studies minor (whatever those mean), lover of my fellow man, concerned party surrounded by my fellow man, student of his fellow man, destroyer of worlds, etc.<\/p>\n
I have many different interests, and although i seem to have captured some of them on digital paper, I am more then that. Definitions are there simply to give the world understanding of what it is to be like the object being defined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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