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My Interests

I'd like to meet:


Richard Kearney

Jean-Luc Marion

Music:

Ben Kweller, The Clash, The Ramones, International Noise Conspiracy, Pixies, The Who, Violent Femmes, Jeff Buckley, John Coltrane, Weezer, The Used, Weakerthans, The Cure, Moneen, Jenoah, Radiohead, Mars Volta, The Shins, Trail of Dead, Wilson Picket, Theloneous Monk, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, FEIST!, Owen, Will Shatner (or "The Shat" as i like to call him), Ben Folds Five, The Constantines, Nirvana, Blind Boys of Alabama (hey these oldies can sing),FOGHAT! Bob Dylan, The Dears, Ozma, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Rick Springfield (okay that was a joke), Alkaline Trio, Regina Spektor, Jimmy Scott, The Format, Cat Power

Movies:

Waynes World 1 and 2, Monty Python, Ghost World, Empire Records, Kathleen, Derrida, Brave Heart, Anchorman. Cursor by www.Soup-Faerie.Com

Television:

Pfft Television

Books:


Alvin Plantinga
A Warranted Christian Belief
Richard Feldman
Epistemology
John Rawls
A Theory Of Justice
Philip Clayton
God and Contemporary Science
The Problem of God in Modern Thought
Richard Kearney
-The God Who May Be
-On Stories
Martin Heidegger
-Being and Time
Paul Ricoeur
-Narrative and Time
-Memory, History and Forgetting
-Figuring the Sacred
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
-Crime and Punishment
-Notes from the underground
-The Brothers Karamazov
George Lindbeck
-The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a postliberal age (blew my freaking mind)
Chomsky
-Manufacturers Consent
-Chomsky and his critics
Augustine
-City of God
-Confessions
William Shakespeare
-Anything
Ludwig Wittgenstein
-Tractatus-Logico Philosophicus
-Philosophical Investigations
Immanuel Kant
-Everything (although I find him incredably dry)
John Locke
-An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
G.W. Leibniz
-Monadology
-Theodicry
Plato
-Republic
-The last days of Socrates
-Symposium

Heroes:

Plato, Augustine, Paul Ricoeur, And for sheer awkwardness Jaques Derrida

My Blog

John Rawls, Justice, and the Severely Disabled

Rawls, Justice, and the Severely Disabled by Ray Aldred Jr. March 14, 2007 In "A Theory of Justice", John Rawls defends two principles of justice. The two principles, Rawls argues, would only be agree...
Posted by Ray on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:17:00 PST

Sonnet # 90

Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now while the world is bent my deeds to cross, Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow, And do not drop in for an after-loss. Ah, do not, when my hea...
Posted by Ray on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

To Science

Sonnet- To Science Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou thus upon the poets heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull reali...
Posted by Ray on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Chamfort.

The perfect man is an honest man who's lost all his illusions. If he's got a mind, he's excellent company since he attaches no importance to anything, he can't be a pedant; he's forbearing because he ...
Posted by Ray on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST