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Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Philosophy never takes a vacation!
If any philosophical issues arises this week, let your fellow bloggers know about it! Describe the situation or event that made you recall one of our themes or discussions and post it here.
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My friends and I were watching Labyrinth one night a few nights ago. One of my friends mentioned how much she loved the movie and my response was, “Yeah. I really love philosophical movies!” Maybe I brought it up because I miss philosophy class so much. Maybe I didn’t. I have no idea why I said it, but everyone wanted to know why it was philosophical, so I started explaining how you never really know anything during the entire movie. The girl could be having a dream about living in her favorite book. Or the whole maze and goblin king thing could be real. But you’re never really sure. At one point there is an owl in the room and then it’s a man, but the viewer cannot take the scene for granted because maybe the girl is delusional, etc. It was rather funny because I just went on and on about knowledge and how the audience does not know anything about the movie because any concrete statement they make can be rebuked by another aspect of the movie. My friends had drool coming out the corners of their mouths by the time I was finished, but I still liked explaining philosophy to them. And I probably could have gone for an hour or more, not just ten minutes, so I guess they lucked out! My grandma, my aunt, my cousin, and I played Apples to Apples the other day and I won the philosophical card with my response of “stubbed toes.” There’s definitely something very philosophical about stubbed toes, I guess! I just put the card down because I had nothing else and it was the most random one I had!
We will have to add "stubbed toes" to the next syllabus! I hope more of you were thinking of philosophy over break --although it is hard to get away from it! This one is done!
If any philosophical issues arises this week, let your fellow bloggers know about it! Describe the situation or event that made you recall one of our themes or discussions and post it here.
2 comments:
My friends and I were watching Labyrinth one night a few nights ago. One of my friends mentioned how much she loved the movie and my response was, “Yeah. I really love philosophical movies!” Maybe I brought it up because I miss philosophy class so much. Maybe I didn’t. I have no idea why I said it, but everyone wanted to know why it was philosophical, so I started explaining how you never really know anything during the entire movie. The girl could be having a dream about living in her favorite book. Or the whole maze and goblin king thing could be real. But you’re never really sure. At one point there is an owl in the room and then it’s a man, but the viewer cannot take the scene for granted because maybe the girl is delusional, etc. It was rather funny because I just went on and on about knowledge and how the audience does not know anything about the movie because any concrete statement they make can be rebuked by another aspect of the movie. My friends had drool coming out the corners of their mouths by the time I was finished, but I still liked explaining philosophy to them. And I probably could have gone for an hour or more, not just ten minutes, so I guess they lucked out!
My grandma, my aunt, my cousin, and I played Apples to Apples the other day and I won the philosophical card with my response of “stubbed toes.” There’s definitely something very philosophical about stubbed toes, I guess! I just put the card down because I had nothing else and it was the most random one I had!
We will have to add "stubbed toes" to the next syllabus! I hope more of you were thinking of philosophy over break --although it is hard to get away from it! This one is done!
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