I was tempted to tag the site "amateur philosophy," but no amount of "philosophy" could un-burden the word "amateur" from its prior obligations, so you can consider the content of this blog just "philosophy" and I'll just have to improve quickly.
Starting this blog, I have two goals in mind:
- Inspire myself to write more regularly. There's something inspiring about the publicity and apparent permanence of using social media, regardless of whether or not you're just shouting into the void. It's what motivates people with 12 followers to write 40 tweets per-day for 6 years. Powerful.
- Inspire myself to write better. Because writing is - for some people - an intrinsically rewarding activity, it's easy to care more about the act of publishing than about the content you're publishing. If I can convince myself that someone might at some point actually read what I'm writing, it would be awfully great if that writing was worth reading.
Feeling justified now.
And the moment you've all been waiting for: my credentials!
- Two courses in Philosophy (at the 1-200) level at yet unnamed liberal arts college. Supplemented by a minor in Urban Studies.
- The first ~130 pages of Bertrand Russell's "History of Western Philosophy" and various other books.
- Spotify's thus-far complete collection of Stephen West's "Philosophize This!" podcast.
- Brazen intellectual confidence.
The content from here out is yet undecided, but hopefully will be reasonably more serious than this.
