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Should we believe that after fifty ten minute talks, finally, once and for
all, the secret link between philosophy and meaning will finally be
Since what will be given here, will never add up to a system, we must
valorize all the singular responses; for in the end, it is the haecceity or
singular, we are first of all bearing witness to what philosophy has given
us collectively.
In 1984, I was in grade 12; trying not to fall asleep in a class focused on
trigonometry. I was wondering when I would ever need to use ratios and
out that trigonometry was useful when I was bricklaying the flower box
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Ignoring the geometry lesson that day, I noticed that my friend was
reading a book with a strange title, written by someone with a last name
I took the book home: it was Nietzsches Thus Spoke Zarathustra. After
I finished reading the first few pages I knew that my intellectual life
The lecture and seminar halls in Thistle, which were smoked-filled at the
The first person I met a Brock was Prof. Miles who taught me Descartes,
Goicoechea who was in the hospital on his second heart attack. A few
ordered the greasiest hamburger I have ever seen, topped with cheese
their own way. Prof. Husain with clarity and rigor taught me to love
Plato and appreciate Aristotle. Prof. Sinha with his gentle way
first teacher.
Prof. Goicoechea with his poetic, biblical and historical focus molded
such an extent that I will never be able to repay what he has given me.
Father Nota and Prof. Sprung made phenomenology alive and showed
me that things are never simply just things. With Prof. Malone I was
introduced to the Tao of the Mansion House and the logic of scotch.
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Thanks to the Philosophy Society, which to my mind was the real
Welland, put $10,000 in cash down on the table and bought me a new
Cavalier. He told me that the door out of the blue collar world was
necessity of the practical so that I could read Nietzsche, bake bread, mix
Deleuze said it best when he indicated that problems are not in the
which one invents for oneself better ways of living. For me this has
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First, philosophy has allowed me to make noble use of my leisure and
noble use of my work. It has given me a life light years removed from
relationship, not only with texts, which I am still excited to read, but
Most importantly, Brock was the place where I first met Suzanne and
stole her away from her boyfriend. It goes without saying that it was
All that I have said and experienced would not have been possible
Everything.