Yes, it’s UCLA, where I’m currently taking classes, trying to finish my philosophy degree. I’ve been working on it about 10 years now. Now that I’m almost done, it’s hard to remember the enthusiasm I had when I began.
The name of your photoblog catched my attention. This entry is not less interesting. Do you still have any kind of favourite philosopher? I think that is easier to answer than a question like “Why is the enthusiasm gone?” If I can guess, then the “boulevard” is to blame. It looks pretty hopeless and depressing and cognition is longing for light. What did Nietzsche write: Go into the mountains and read me there every now and then. :)
Thanks Christian. Actually, I do have a favorite philosopher: Schopenhauer. My second favorite is Hume. That’s a bad combination, I think ;-)
When I walk in these halls, and especially when I go up or down the stairs, I think of the thousands and thousands of other students who have been there before me. I think of their dreams for the future, and wonder what their experience was like. Did they come to dread walking into a certain classroom? Are they glad they came here, or did it seem like so much wasted time?
Sometimes I wish I had gone to college immediately after high school. But then, my life would have been completely different. I would have married someone else, had different children, lived in different places. What reason do I have for thinking that life would be better than this one?
I don’t think you can forget philosophy, Kenny. It just comes up – or not. Or we are indeed free to want what we want. ;-)
Thank you for your answer, Neil. I also like Schopenhauer. It’s a great pleasure to read him in German. He has a fantastic manner to put thoughts in clear sentences. Unfortunately I don’t know much about Hume. My favourite is Nietzsche. There is a book written by Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche wept, it describes a character that is close to my interpretation, a character one simply has to admire. I don’t know anyone who has the strength and sincerity to put everything in question as much as he did, especially the “I”.
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Yes, it’s UCLA, where I’m currently taking classes, trying to finish my philosophy degree. I’ve been working on it about 10 years now. Now that I’m almost done, it’s hard to remember the enthusiasm I had when I began.
The name of your photoblog catched my attention. This entry is not less interesting. Do you still have any kind of favourite philosopher? I think that is easier to answer than a question like “Why is the enthusiasm gone?” If I can guess, then the “boulevard” is to blame. It looks pretty hopeless and depressing and cognition is longing for light. What did Nietzsche write: Go into the mountains and read me there every now and then. :)
Thanks Christian. Actually, I do have a favorite philosopher: Schopenhauer. My second favorite is Hume. That’s a bad combination, I think ;-)
When I walk in these halls, and especially when I go up or down the stairs, I think of the thousands and thousands of other students who have been there before me. I think of their dreams for the future, and wonder what their experience was like. Did they come to dread walking into a certain classroom? Are they glad they came here, or did it seem like so much wasted time?
Sometimes I wish I had gone to college immediately after high school. But then, my life would have been completely different. I would have married someone else, had different children, lived in different places. What reason do I have for thinking that life would be better than this one?
Just go shoot more pictures and forget about all that philosophy. Keep it up, you have some good stuff here.
I don’t think you can forget philosophy, Kenny. It just comes up – or not. Or we are indeed free to want what we want. ;-)
Thank you for your answer, Neil. I also like Schopenhauer. It’s a great pleasure to read him in German. He has a fantastic manner to put thoughts in clear sentences. Unfortunately I don’t know much about Hume. My favourite is Nietzsche. There is a book written by Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche wept, it describes a character that is close to my interpretation, a character one simply has to admire. I don’t know anyone who has the strength and sincerity to put everything in question as much as he did, especially the “I”.