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WHY PHILOSOPHY?

"...Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions...but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imaginaton and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe whcih philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good."
   - Bertrand Russell, "The Value of Philosophy"

Like Russell, we all have questions about the universe around us and our places within it. Most of us even dare to think that we have answers sometimes, and the search for these answers are that to which I've dedicated this website.   Philosophy is that fundamental search; that is why philosphy. Please, I'd love to hear what all of you out there have to say about life, the universe, and everything. So give me what you got! (If the link doesn't work, just send an email to danieljs@jmu.edu)

THOUGHTS OF THE EVERYMAN
"Croissant Pocketalism, Volume 1" - Essay by Jesse Bander
"An Enquiry Concerning the Discernment of the Real in Romance" - Harlo Spears
"IM Conversation with God" - By Justin Eames
"In Cooperation With God" - Essay on Genetic Ethics by Justin Eames
"In Defense of Cigarettes" - Essay by Theo Warner
"The King's Creed" - Creed on the Way of the King by Theo Warner
"Optimistically Lying Here, Dying Here" - Poem by Ray Szwabowski
"Master of the Gods" - Essay by Spencer Daniel
"Men Are Idiots" - Essay by Theo Warner
"Mold" - Poem by Brad Tuggle
"Original Sin" - Poem by Justin Eames
"Reason Not the Need" - Short Story by Spencer Daniel
"Reason: The Cause of Causes" - Essay by Campbell Lowther
"Solipsism" - Essay by Chris Fenlon
"Spencer's Philosophical Mind" - Dialogue by Michael Leedom
"That Loving Feeling" - Essay by Ben Swilley
"Thymos: Will Our Desire to Gain Make Us Lose?" - Essay by Mike Girts
Untitled Poem by Stephanie Brincefield

FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Albert Camus' pronouncement of the unjustifiability of killing from The Rebel
Ayn Rand's description of love from her book Atlas Shrugged
Paul Tillich's description of courage from his book The Courage to Be
Josheph Campbell's understanding of Jesus' religion from The Power of Myth

                   philosophers have participated in this Symposium.

Note: The ideas of the philosophers on this page do not necessarily reflect the ideas of the author of it (except perhaps the ones he's written...)

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