The blog will come to a grinding halt on August 17th, 2018 as the next phase in my life begins: college. However, before I go, I will be making the most of the time .
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"Everything is a remix" explores the value of the public domain to the evolution of human technology, science, and culture:
(I submitted this to my Modern Poetry class on Coursera) The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend � Or the most agonizing Spy � An Enemy � could send � Secure against its own � No treason it can fear � Itself � its Sovereign � of itself The Soul should stand in Awe � This topic of this poem is the soul's relationship to itself. There are two descriptions of this relationship which wrap around each other throughout the poem - master and enemy. Let's consider the phrases of the poem individually. "The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend �" The first concept introduced is the "Soul". The soul is the entire essence of a person - his identity, his thoughts, his emotions, his desires, and his will. The soul is a complex thing with multiple dimensions. Plato thought that it had three parts - roughly the animal appetites, the rational being, and the will which arbitrates between them. "Soul" is similar to the wor...
The world offers many simple formulas for leading a good life - from the ever popular commencement speech advice "do what makes you happy" to the hippie/Disney incantation that "it's all about love". But no simple formula can capture all the nuance that makes up a good life. Behind the scenes the successful followers of these formulas cheat at the edges, making exceptions in difficult circumstances. It's not clear how a philosophy about the primacy of happiness or love offers guidance in hard times when a person must sacrifice short term well-being for long term gain. Bending a slogan through enough curlicues of argumentation can apply it to all cases. But if any principle can be universalized with enough argumentation, then none stands out. Each serves as a reasonable map for people lacking any life direction but grows hazy in the details. Undaunted by the failure of simple life philosophies, I recently made an attempt to fashion my own. Perhaps it is no mo...
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