February 2012
3 posts
Enconium of your mum
Second term of second year has started. There’s been all sorts of excitement already, as I’m sure you can imagine. We’ve discussed topics as harrowing as domestic violence, as broad as abductive reasoning and as historically important as Gorgias’ Enconium of Helen. But more, much more than that, we’ve seen that some of our fellow philosophy students have an...
What came first, the music or the misery?
What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop...