beatrice_otter: Me in red--face not shown (Rodney)
2007-02-26 10:33 am

Letter to Descartes

And here's my letter to Descartes. I was never able to find any adress he ever lived at, but I was able to find the adress for the church where he is currently buried. (Apparently, he was exhumed and re-buried a couple of different times in the decades following his death.) We read David Hume this week, and I need to write his letter today, and the next two weeks we'll spend on Kant.

Letter to Descartes )
beatrice_otter: Me in red--face not shown (Default)
2007-02-20 10:57 pm

Letter to Anselm

One of my classes is Philosophy for Theology, and I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would. We read a different philosopher each week, and there are no tests or papers. Instead, we are to write a 2-3 page single-spaced letter to each philosopher, assuming that they are a member of our congregation, responding to each work. Writing these letters is one of the most fun assignments I've had in any class in years (intellectually stimulating and interesting not being the same as "fun"), so I decided to post them here for all to see. The first philosopher, two weeks ago, was Anselm of Canterbury; we read his Proslogium.

Letter to Anselm of Canterbury )