An explicit view into the loony-bin!

I decided (after numerous requests) to give you a little summary for all my classes: They are amazing.

Not satisfied? Fine:

1) Aristotle
Here we read his Categories, which is very technical and dry. The good part about the class is the discussion time aka telling someone they are wrong and that they should keep their mouth shut unless something useful comes out without actually saying it. PS: that is basically what Aristotle says in the Categories as well, by the way.

2) Epistemology and Rationality
This is a class in English. I have no idea why. Maybe because of the fact that all the philosophers we have dealt with in this class wrote their stuff in English... Anyways... the theme of the course should be fairly self-explanatory. ---- No? Yes! Epistemology and Rationality. Thank you.
Ohhhh what does that meeeean? I have no idea, thats why I'm taking the course!!!!

3) The Concious Mind
David Chalmers wrote this lovely book about conciousness and how it cannot be explained by conventional physical/medical sciences. It is probably the most difficult class I am taking this year because the prof seems to assume alot of previous knowledge but the topic is too exciting to drop the class. Hangin' in there. It would probably help if I would actually start reading the friggen book!

4) Naming and Necessity
I stoped taking this class because Kripke (the author of Naming and Necessity, which is a documented series of lectures on the topic of names and their purpose) proved that unicorns don't exist. That pretty much destroyed my universe so I stopped going to class in order to not break out in hysteric, tearful fits.

5) Karl V.
This is an art history lecture on Karl V and other early Habsburger(s) (emperors of the then very powerful Austrian empire) as art patrons. It is amazing to see how much of the art and which direction it took during that time was governed by people of power: all of it!

6 +7) Platonism
This includes two classes (one lecture and one seminar) on the history of Platonic thought. Very, very interesting. It gives a nice overview of how the same ideas can be differently interpreted and so remain viable even today. Plato rocks.

8) Marx's Kapital
ehmm I attended 2 or three classes and am not planning on changing my rareness in presence in the near future. It was basically summarizing whatever we were supposed to read from the book and nothing more. I can read it in my own time whenever I want. Thank you. (I will write the exam so this still counts as a class)

9) Hobbes' Leviathan
Great class! Great discussions! and most importantly: hot prof!!!

10) Political Philosophy
This is my favourite class. So far we just finished an overview of Hobbes' ideas and will venture into Locke and later Rosseau and all those... The prof is amazing and makes hilarious comments on politics.

11) Caravaggio and Poussin
Ok I lied; THIS is my favourite class. I love Caravaggio!

12) Kant: Pure Reason (Kritik der Reinen Vernunft)
I don't know whats so great about Kant. I think he is arrogant and full of himself (much like Aristotle). I don't have specific reasons why I think that but.... its intuition!!! I don't like him. Though he does say some good stuff about.... stuff. Fine: I kind of really like his philosophy but that doesn't say sh*** about the person behind it!!

13) Kierkegaard
Again one of my favourite classes. I don't know how to translate the title of the book we are reading... its about despair and how it is the worst of all possible human conditions because either a) we want to be ourselfs but are not or b) we are oursleves but don't want to be. Yup, good stuff.

14) Michail Bachtin
An overview on his works that are all about writing. For example he claims that there is a two-way relationship between an author and his protagonist. Wait... does that mean in this blog I'm having a two way relationship with myself? And back? Ok... this is making me dizzy...

Thats it! If you niticed: I've cut back from 18 to 15 to 14 classes (Platonism is two). That has a simple reason: I joined the orchestra and that 1) overlaped with another class and 2) forces me to practice more violin than usual. So something had to be done.

It seems I'm still stretching my limits. The normal number of classes to take here is between 4 or 5 (Ooops, I guess that puts me in the loony-bin!!!!!) and trust me, I know (and feel) why. But common: would YOU drop any of them?