New College of Florida enters its second year under new leadership.
Christopher F. Rufo
Sep 03, 2024
(From The Comments
Someone
21 hrs ago
I am a philosophy professor. I am retiring this year after teaching philosophy for 45 years. (I started when I was 25.) I studied Existentialism and Freud; then I went through the deconstruction years which soured me on relativism and gibberish jargon. I ended up a conservative and studied and taught mostly the history of Western philosophy and ethics. This year I am teaching Robot Ethics and AI and our world. The point is, today I was getting out of my car, a bit maudlin as my career ends and I thought. I just do not fit in this academic world anymore. A student asked at the end of class today, do I think that there is good and bad, he whispered it looking to see if anyone heard him. He was genuinely scared to ask! I said yes the Good really is Beautiful and the Beautiful really is Good. It was if I had told him a dangerous secret and he was so so pleased. You are doing a Good thing with this school and it will be Beautiful if it is indeed Good. Final Cause First!!
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That is Really Scary! Scary that he didn't want anyone to see him ask, That he Had to ask. Not sure which one is scarier.
OTOH
The Difficult Work of Academic Reform
New College of Florida enters its second year under new leadership.
Christopher F. Rufo
Sep 03, 2024
(From The Comments
Someone
21 hrs ago
I am a philosophy professor. I am retiring this year after teaching philosophy for 45 years. (I started when I was 25.) I studied Existentialism and Freud; then I went through the deconstruction years which soured me on relativism and gibberish jargon. I ended up a conservative and studied and taught mostly the history of Western philosophy and ethics. This year I am teaching Robot Ethics and AI and our world. The point is, today I was getting out of my car, a bit maudlin as my career ends and I thought. I just do not fit in this academic world anymore. A student asked at the end of class today, do I think that there is good and bad, he whispered it looking to see if anyone heard him. He was genuinely scared to ask! I said yes the Good really is Beautiful and the Beautiful really is Good. It was if I had told him a dangerous secret and he was so so pleased. You are doing a Good thing with this school and it will be Beautiful if it is indeed Good. Final Cause First!!
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That is Really Scary! Scary that he didn't want anyone to see him ask, That he Had to ask. Not sure which one is scarier.
Both are scary!
I am not really sure how this comment addresses my comment. Can you clarify?
They (the Progressives) are Still In very much in Charge.
Yet, how does that fact respond to DianaтАЩs point?
Ha! I was just about to write this