The Fartstory of Farstern Fartosophy
I started reading Bertrand Russell’s The History of Western Philosophy this morning, because I am full of wonder and curiosity. It’s pretty cool. I like to imagine all the characters on my own, though, that’s why I started reading it this morning, because I plan on seeing the movie this summer, but I don’t want to be forced to think of Scott Speedman every time Petrarch is mentioned.
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
In my mind’s eye, Petrarch looks more like this:
Anyway, I only made it through the “Preface” and the “Introductory,” but I thought this paragraph was really weird:
Subjectivity, once let loose, could not be confined within limits until it had run its course. In morals, the Protestants emphasis on the individual conscience was essentially anarchic. Habit and custom were so strong that, except in occasional outbreaks such as that of Münster, the disciples of individualism in ethics continued to act in a manner which was conventionally virtuous. But this was a precarious equilibrium. SPOILER ALERT: The eighteenth-century cult of “sensibility” began to break it down: an act was admired, not for its good consequences, or for its conformity to a moral code, but for the emotion that inspired it. Out of this attitude developed the cult of the hero, as it is expressed by Carlyle and Nietzche, and the Byronic cult of violent passion of no matter what kind.
Fart noise!
March 13th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Scott sure is hot.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:22 am
but hes so..so…..DREAMY!
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