Philosophy Club tonight featured a speaker by the name of J. Aaron Simmons who is studying to get his Ph.D in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University. He presented his paper entitled Maintaining the Paradox: Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, and the Possibility of Religious Life. It was a real sparker. He talked about the struggle of faith and Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard's struggle with this struggle. At one point he picked on Wittgenstein's Tractatus and pointed out how self-contradictory it is, which amused me. I really enjoyed the Tractatus when I read it last year. I think that it's the seeming flaw of self-contradiction that makes it poetry. I really loved the trip he took me on while reading it, and when I got to the end and was where I started, it tickled me.
Posted by Deke at September 23, 2004 10:59 PMI think that's the difference between an artist and a theologian... For us, contradiction is beautiful, for them it's a flaw.
"Theologians don't know nothing about my soul..." -Wilco
Posted by: KornSt@r at September 24, 2004 01:33 AMCall me sometime. ;-)
Posted by: jkrue at September 24, 2004 05:06 PM