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Hume’s brute reading of how color works is quite disturbing, even more so than his bleak view of morals.
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Descartes is the dartboard at which Pascal throws his darts.
History of Philosophy professor
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“Are you interested in the truth or are you interested in winning?”
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Philosophy is sort of like sex. It is fun to watch other people do it but nothing compares to doing it yourself.
Epistemology Professor
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For Nietzsche, a guy nailed to a two by four just isn't God material.
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Honestly in this type of argument I like to just take a moment to blame Descartes for everything and move on.
Epistemology professor
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Remember, there's no shame in switching careers.
Ethics professor on his last lecture of the Introduction to Philosophy course.
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Nothing is literally happening and yet it means everything.
Metaphysics professor
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You can teach an entire first order logic class without using the word ‘set’ and the only thing you would lose is fashion.
Logic professor
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People that do work on modal auxiliary verbs like ’shall’ and ‘will’ tend to go crazy after awhile.
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And that's more or less the outline of Kantian idealism. I'll now take comments on this deplorable set of views.
History of Philosophy professor
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Nietzsche was high and sick when he wrote On the Genealogy of Morals in fifteen days. So... good luck, guys.
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Put in too many parentheses and you’ll go blind.
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Hume wrote ‘A Treatise of Human Nature’ when he was 23 — about your age. Make sure you’ve accomplished something of equal value in the next few years.
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No defense of Utilitarianism is complete without sliding on your trusty rubber gloves and getting to work in the baby fields.
Ethics professor
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I like to think of Nietzsche in terms of The Republic. Actually, I like to think of everything in terms of The Republic.
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Believe me when I say I'm an excellent teacher. Kant is just complicated.
History of Philosophy professor
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