Tom Morris



2008.02.21

Shock London news: Heathrow is shit. Stop the presses! 2008-02-21T20:21:50ZUntitled entry permalink

I've got to say that I'm liking prospective American president, Barack Obama, more and more every day. Why? His speeches sure are stirring and all, but this 2006 speech proves to me that he has a brain, which is more than can be said for a lot of politicians. I particularly like this bit: But it's fair to say that if any of us leaving this church saw Abraham on a roof of a building raising his knife, we would, at the very least, call the police and expect the Department of Children and Family Services to take Isaac away from Abraham. I want the leader of the free world to have understood Fear and Trembling, and I think Obama is probably the closest of the candidates for the office of President to thinking with any degree of rationality about the philosophical underpinnings of values. Philosopher-kings are generally thought of as a bad thing - and compared to no kings, they are certainly a step down - but compared to idiot-kings, they are a big step up since they recognise logic while idiot-kings only recognise power. 2008-02-21T18:43:38ZUntitled entry permalink

 

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Tom Morris
Currently in: East Sussex, England
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I am a , an , like to code in and noodle about with and the . I also have a BA in philosophy from London, and am studying for an MA. My philosophical interests are in Victorian-era German philosophy, Kierkegaard, Robert Nozick, hermeneutics and current approaches to the demarcation problem in the philosophy of science. Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.

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