I had a teacher in college. He would tell the class on the first day that, "if they were late to class, then they would need to sit in the hall until the break", which was in the middle of this 2.5 hour class. He also regularly removed people from class who were playing on... Continue Reading →
Epicureanism and America
This article is interesting for a number of reasons. In the good ol' USA, it seems to me that pleasure is the end goal of most things. At some level Jeremy Bentham was right about mankind beingĀ a slave to the 2 masters of...pain and pleasure. Mr. Bentham says it best: "Nature has placed mankind under... Continue Reading →