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overstated: Noah: Righteousness on a Curve?
BS"DParsha Noach opens with an interesting line-- eileh toldos noah noah ish tsadik tomim hoyoh bodorosov-- "This is the line of Noah; Noah was a righteous man; he was blameless in his age." It continues, "Noah walked with God."Rashi immediately begins ...
Dateline: 2009-10-20 12:06am PT (51 words)
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overstated: Col. Kemp
I really don't want to make this about politics, but this is exceptional:...
Dateline: 2009-10-19 8:21pm PT (13 words)
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overstated: Simone de Beauvoir
An excerpt from The Ethics of Ambiguity:In one sense the individual, as a matter of fact, is not very much, and we can understand the misanthrope who in 1939 declared: “After all, when you look at people one by one, it doesn’t seem so awful a thing t...
Dateline: 2009-10-18 8:51pm PT (51 words)
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overstated: Custom and Belief: Hume’s Pre-established Harmony
After being absorbed in the world of phenomenology in preparation for writing a major thesis, I have become increasingly nostalgic for the simplicity of Hume. This is likely because Hume's writings essentially begin by casting doubt upon popular philoso...
Dateline: 2009-10-16 5:20pm PT (51 words)
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overstated: Happy Columbus Day
In truth, Columbus Day marks several things. At the time, it was probably not the predominant "headline" in Spain. Another event, not surprisingly glossed over by a "forgetful" world occurred on the same month that Spanish monarch ordered Columbus to e...
Dateline: 2009-10-16 5:20pm PT (51 words)
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overstated: Husserlian Ontology
The student of phenomenology is fortunate that, despite the schools' subsequent fragmentation, the foundation of phenomenology can be, in large part, traced back to one man-- Edmund Husserl. Of course, after Husserl phenomenology expands drastically fro...
Dateline: 2009-10-16 5:20pm PT (51 words)
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