4 posts tagged “philosophy”

Slipknot and Philosophy?  Or how about the Philosophy of Slipknot?  Yes?  No?  Okay, maybe that's going a bit too far with the entire song list that the band has managed to produce.  But there's one song in particular that I'm talking about... "vermillion".  I was listening to my song list earlier and this one came up.  Some of the lyrics have a deeper meaning.  The lines "while I exist through my need" and "she isn't real, I can't make her real" refers to "Cartesian Dualism" and the line "I'm a slave, and I am a master" refers to Nietzsche's master-slave morality theory.

Who would've thought that metal could be so "metal"... right?  We've seen Philosophy used in movies like the Matrix (allegory of the cave and brain in a vat), Batman Begins (retributive justice), but I really like that it's had a big influence on one of my favorite bands, Slipknot.  Seeing works from Friedrich Nietzsche and Rene Descartes used in mainstream music today... well it just kicks ass.  While "vermillion" wasn't my favorite song on the album, I did like how the video was made. 

The images at the top of the post are of the band while they wore their masks from the previous album cycle.  I'm looking forward to see those the masks look later this year.  The mask I have, well just look at the top row, 2nd from the right.  That's the one I have.  I wore it to the last show.  I wouldn't mind getting my hands on one of the death masks that the band wore in the video.        

  Cheers

All the more reason for me to hold on to all my Philosophy books, audio lectures, and papers.  If/when I do get to experience the joys of parenthood, I can pass along all my materials to the little one(s).  HA!

When students have the opportunity to participate in “Socratic seminars” on a regular basis, a different classroom culture evolves. The students collaborate more and more voices are heard. The students develop their thinking skills in a cooperative and investigative atmosphere. This is shown in a new dissertation in Pedagogy by Ann S Pihlgren at the Stockholm University in Sweden.

The Socratic dialogue is a particular way of developing children’s, as well as adults’, thinking skills through cooperative dialogue where significant human ideas and values are discussed. By participating in Socratic seminars regularly every other week, preschool children and older students develop their thinking skills. The seminars address literature and art work, with questions such as these: is Pippi Longstocking is a good friend, is Jack is stupid or smart when he sells his mother’s cow for some beans or are we born good or evil. In the beginning the students have difficulty expressing their thoughts, but with time their ability to express themselves and to examine ideas critically and logically develops.

Socrates in the classroom develops students' thinking and changes the distribution of power

 

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was released in 2005.  You can read about the origin HERE.  It's near the top of my list of favorite movies, right along side The Matrix and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 

Check out one of my favorite clips from the film.

For some reason I kept thinking about David Hume's "An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding" after watching this particular scene.   Maybe the trigger word was "sensation" that the whale used in the scene which caused me to think of Hume's work. 

What's the next country What are the next countries that you want to visit? 
Submitted by Schomer.

I'd love to visit the following after I earn my BA (hopefully by August if I play my cards right).  I better get my passport now I suppose.

Greece:  I've always been fascinated with the city of Athens, for so long it's been on my list of places I've wanted to visit.  I have wanted to see the Parthenon on the Acropolis, and the sites where Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum once stood for myself.  To visit the city where the philosophical greats met and taught through philosophical dialectic.  Where they discussed many questions that people still ponder today. 

Italy: The great city of ROME (SPQR)(SENATVS POPVLVSQVE·ROMANVS) which was founded by Remus and Romolus in 751 BCE (Before the Common Era).  Rome and the Romans picked up where the Greeks left off with their many contributions in Philosophy and even other disciplines that we still use today.  I've always been fascinated with Rome and her culture for quite a few years.  I'd love to make the trip to visit someday.  I want to see the Flavian Amphitheatre, Circus Maximus, also "Seven hills of Rome": the Capitoline, Palatine, Viminal, Quirinal, Esquiline, Caelian, and Aventine hills.  I want to visit the site where the great Caesar was struck down, his final resting place, same with Augustus.  I want to see the great aquaducts and the two triumphal arches (Titus and Constatine).