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Philosophy 4
Owen Wister
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Owen Wister's wry humor enlivens this comedic story of three sophomores during exam week at Harvard.
Owen Wister's wry humor enlivens this comedic story of three sophomores during exam week at Harvard.
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Community Reviews
Maybe NON fiction? So florid and foreign it may as well have been Shakespeare ... which is what I am finding with these retro works from 100+ years ago. Seemed so coy & cloying one may easily imagine homosexual currents throughout.
Contrasting with coming up on my own comps in a week I found Harvard
The book starts with the following dialogue:
“By starting from the Absolute Intelligence, the chief cravings of the reason, after unity and spirituality, receive due satisfaction. Something transcending the Objective becomes possible. In the Cogito, the relation of subject and object is implied as t
Interesting story.
You get partway through thinking the two rich characters are buffoons, but then at the end they actually have thought about philosophy, while their classmate the tutor has just memorized the professor's lectures.
Goodreads may very well be an unfair platform for a book like this. In no way is it "good" or worthy of "stars." The book is over a hundred years old and has a thesis more than any development or plot. That thesis seems to be a criticism of traditional academia and a fidelity toward curriculum over