The Philosophy Toolkit

Having just read through the various sections of the philosophy toolkit on the DKJ blog, I must say, the thing that I found the most interesting was the declaration of the seven Intellectual Virtues of the highly reasonable thinker. It seems that these were very wise things to have chosen for this category, specifically on the front of the three forms of intellectual responsibility. These are listed as Intellectual: Honesty, Humility, and Courage, and when it really comes down to it, I think that these are potentially the three most important things on this list. To hone in on what I mean, the other four primary pieces of this equation seem to focus primarily on the general respect of all information that surrounds the self. However, when analyzing the three aforementioned intellectual responsibilities, these are the things that make up the receptive rules of the knowledge that we must collect to ascertain our reality; and this tribunal covers exactly the most important parts when doing such. Thus, this is the thing that I wanted to discuss, for I find it to be very true and very useful to consider when in a phiosophy class.

Who Am I?

For once I was and since have stopped; but returned I have to post a lot.

This is the blog that has endured philosophy about art, and belief, and life; and today it returns to discuss the things that I think when given literature as the topic at hand. To remind some people who may not have been to this blog in the past, I am Alex Massar and as it is right now I am a student by profession, specifically in music, but just about anything is interesting to me unless you want to talk about politics.I have blond curly hair, blue eyes, and I am excited that you are reading this because it means that you have made the first step in getting to know me, but there is not much that I could tell you via the blog that I feel would truly represent who I am; thus if you really wanted to know who I am, I would prefer if you just asked me about it anytime you may see me (its ok, I don't bite).

As for the blog itself, I have but one rule when it comes down to using this blog and it is thus:

I write this blog in hopes that someone reading this blog has something that they would like to add to the conversation I pose, and I invite those inquiries openly with the request that you leave your response as a response on my post, rather than just saying that you have responded on your own blog: this aggravates me more than anything you will ever say about anything I have said.

With that being said, I look forward to the semester, and I hope to have many blogging conversations.