Philosophy Isles

[Spud Boy Rosa]

This is fun.

[Just Some Girl]

Philosophy Isles videos are too long, man.

[Spud Boy Rosa]

What did you expect?  It's philosophy!

[Just Some Girl]

I guess the emoticon clue didn't actually clue you in to the fact that I was teasing.

I love over-explaining to you, Dan. Even though you know I was teasing.

[Spud Boy Rosa]

I guess the emoticon clue didn't actually clue you in to the fact that I was teasing.

I love over-explaining to you, Dan. Even though you know I was teasing.

Yeah.  Sports bickering, eh? 

Take a look anyway: I've only watched the first lecture, but it was fun. The professor gives a few moral conundrums to the class, and then they debate them.  It's amusing to see the kids try to justify their moral choices.  He then uses the moral conundrums as a way to introduce them to moral philosophy. 

However, I wish the professor would mention the fact that most of our moral choices are pretty much instinctive: we choose and then we rationalize, not the other way around. 

One of my friends teaches philosophy (metaphysics!) at Ohio State, and from him, I get the impression that it's a common habit of philosophy professors to believe that human beings are more rational than they actually are. 

[Just Some Girl]

I love metaphysics!

This lecture (and series) sounds cool, fo' sho', but I have to watch two movies this aft (one of which is set in summer, by a lake... waaaaaaaah!!) by a prospective director client (a Montrealer, no less) so I will be occupado for a while and can't spare an hour. I am just that busy. (Rolls eyes at self)