Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Essay is But Blog Writ Large








5 comments:

  1. Thanks for the mast--er, essay.

    Another contemporary term is "rant." When my students don't understand a philosopher's argument, they say he's "ranting" about something.

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  2. Interesting! Mine just say he's double-talking!

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  3. Come again?
    sorry about that ;-]
    My favorite essayist is Bertrand Russell, unless you count Dorothy Parker the same way.

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  4. Yes, Russell is interesting and a fellow philosopher!! I have never read Dorothy Parker, so know nothing about her. Russell's pieces are well organized and you can't mistake his point. I suppose you are thinking of his collection in _Why I am not a Christian_?

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  5. Yep.
    "Marriage and Morals" is also good.

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