Hey everyone. So it's now finals week, and this means we're looking at the last of the Wyma quotes (at least until fall rolls around). Best wishes to everyone and their assorted tests, and I hope to see you all here again next semester.
History of Modern Philosophy 2009
"Oooh, I made a new word."
"Apodictic, yeah, I said it, apodictic."
"No...no...I had like five spelling errors in that word [hypothetical]"
(Wyma draws a Kantian circle on the whiteboard, dislikes it, and draws another)
"The circle did not get any better...now it's offending me"
(erases it and tries a third time)
"There, that's a little better."
"Americans are obsessed with cars. We have restaurants designed so you don't even have to leave your car. Drive-in-movie theaters...oooh, I'd like to go to a movie, but I don't want to leave my car. Lots of people were conceived in cars...there were lots of car "dates." (A small Wyma rant on car fixation.)
"There are limits to the usefulness of being quotable...or unbearably hip" (Wyma, on one of his classes saying "Wyma is a pimp," on all of his evals.)
(Editor's final note, Wyma's quote about being quotable seemed like the perfect way to end.)
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Nietzsche Special
“Hard to get a signal from Nietzsche because of all that heat.”
Contradicting Wills: “Oh I am sore. (sleeping). Oh ethics. Wait I am hungry. No, I have to poop. Right ethics.”
“The will to power is about subordinating other desires to achieve an overall will. I live with two people that poop whenever they want, most often at the dinner table. They are 2 ½ so it is to be expected, but it puts you off your own meal.”
“It’s evil! Don’t touch it.”
“Hard to get a signal from Nietzsche because of all that heat.”
Contradicting Wills: “Oh I am sore. (sleeping). Oh ethics. Wait I am hungry. No, I have to poop. Right ethics.”
“The will to power is about subordinating other desires to achieve an overall will. I live with two people that poop whenever they want, most often at the dinner table. They are 2 ½ so it is to be expected, but it puts you off your own meal.”
“It’s evil! Don’t touch it.”
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
History of Modern Philosophy 2009
(Me)"Wouldn't Reid's claim [ideas aren't the mind's objects, just what's really out there] be a problem though...like when you're nearsighted and everything's all fuzzy and blurry and soft?"
(Wyma) "You're seeing bunnies (takes off glasses) I'm teaching bunnies"
"I'm trying really hard not to think about Britney Spears." (Editor's question, aren't we all?)
"Some truly trippy Kantian stuff."
(Me)"Wouldn't Reid's claim [ideas aren't the mind's objects, just what's really out there] be a problem though...like when you're nearsighted and everything's all fuzzy and blurry and soft?"
(Wyma) "You're seeing bunnies (takes off glasses) I'm teaching bunnies"
"I'm trying really hard not to think about Britney Spears." (Editor's question, aren't we all?)
"Some truly trippy Kantian stuff."
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