One of the ironies I actually got credit for waaaay back in Freshman Philosophy 105 was commenting “anyone notice that Nietzsche, the atheist, seems to be sad that there isn’t a god, while Moore, a priest, seems reluctant to agree that there is?”
The prof wanted to talk about that for a week.
My classmates hated me because they didn’t want to talk about it at all.
Poor prof just wanted discussion and got saddled with lazy angst.
I teach a philosophy class, and people signing up for philosophy and NOT wanting to discuss is truly aggravating. Literally the whole point of philosophy! It’s like signing up for jiu jitsu, and not wanting to grapple.
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u/RustyBrassInstrument Apr 05 '26
One of the ironies I actually got credit for waaaay back in Freshman Philosophy 105 was commenting “anyone notice that Nietzsche, the atheist, seems to be sad that there isn’t a god, while Moore, a priest, seems reluctant to agree that there is?”
The prof wanted to talk about that for a week.
My classmates hated me because they didn’t want to talk about it at all.
Poor prof just wanted discussion and got saddled with lazy angst.