Season's Greetings

I hope everyone's summers have been successful and fruitful. Speaking of fruit, the leaves on the trees around us will soon have difficulty photosynthesizing and will turn umber in hue because, as you all are aware, summer is coming to a close, and autumn will soon be upon us, bringing with it the 2009-2010 school year. The potential for philosophical discourse and dinners is palpable in the air. I recently met for lunch at Goode Co. Taqueria with our founder, Dakota Klaes. We talked about his experience as a first year Philosophy/Political Science major at Vanderbilt, and discussed the future of the League. There was talk of t-shirts, decoder rings, monogram polos, and matching tattoos. I hope that those of you who are interested enough in the League to read this blog are also willing to help represent the League at Culture Fest, Chili Cook-Off, and any other events where I may need your help. This year is going to be a lot of fun, and we will reap what we sow, so let's sow seeds of dedication, involvement, assiduity, and inquisitiveness.

Jack

Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness

I was going to buy this dvd set

http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=726788

but then I found a google video version of it.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2808374571100926940&hl=en

this is the first episode, you can find the rest under the "more from this user" tab

jack

d'souza v. hitchens

for all of you young philosophers that were at our last meeting, here is the debate between Dinesh D'souza and Christopher Hitchens to which Mr. McClure referred.

http://www.isi.org/lectures/flvplayer/lectureplayer.aspx?file=v000187_cicero_102207.flv

just checking in...

Mr. Steinhart and myself were thinking about having a meeting sometime during interim term, since you all will undoubtedly have time on your hands. Feel free to suggest a date. Some topics I was planning on discussing were sources of morality (who is to say what's right and wrong? is it worthwhile to deconstruct everything like that?).

i wish you all good cheer, and hope to see you at the next meeting.

first meeting, and a video of slavoj zizek

Hey guys,

over a dozen people turned up tonight, which i am satisfied with since it is our first meeting and also a Thursday night and I'm sure people are studying for important tests.  Thank you to everyone who showed up.  It's gettin pretty cold out, i think i might wear a sweater vest under my blazer, but over my oxford tomorrow.  not sure though.

anyways, here's a video of slavoj zizek talking about love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJPhA9TGRls&feature=related

Welcome Young Philosophers!

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