Discord Teaches Philosophy... as a Subsitute Teacher? (For Real this Time) · 12:59am Apr 3rd, 2018
In case you're wondering why I'm posting this again, it's because this was due to bad timing on my part. I guess the reason why hardly anybody commented or gave me suggestions of something that I was serious about might have been the fact that it was posted on April 1st. April Fools day. So to get around this, I'm going to try posting this a second time to see if anyone could give me some good ideas for this continuation.
Dear Bronies and Pegasisters,
Firstly, wow. I didn't expected that not only did this one shot get enough attention to merit a place on the feature place, but to be placed so high up. This is a first as the latter has never happened in the years that I have been writing on this site. So I want to thank you all for thus tremendous honor.
Secondly, while I originally intended to be it a one-shot, recently I have been pondering if I could expand this story just a little. Okay before you start flooding this blog with suggestions about which philosopher and deep subject to tackle on, a few things I need to make clear. Currently I need to set aside writing stories as my classes demand to take top priority so it maybe a while before I could do anything. And when I do find the time, I don't exactly want to turn this into a full scale novel.
In fact, I think the best course for Discord is to have time as a part-time teacher in which he'll step in to do specific lessons that are both interesting and relatable to the students involve. That being said, I think it should be wise to avoid ontological arguments (or the study of proving if GOD exists) or philosophies that are under 100 years old. Also keep in mind that I do feel nervous about doing this that if enough readers want me to write about the lessons of say... Nietzsche, then I must be extremely careful as I know if I misunderstood him or word it wrong then I would get burned at the stake.
Simply put, if you are going to give me suggestions about the subject of philosophy, it must:
1. Give me the name of the philosopher or philosophical question.
2. The lesson that they teach and why.
3. Have a source for me to learn from. (Preferably from YouTube.)
4. The philosopher in question must be born before 1901.
Keep in mind, while I might not use every philosophy, I do want to achieve the goal to do it in story form and in plain English so that anyone can understand it.
I hope to hear from you.
Signed your fellow writer and closeted Brony,
- CrackedInkWell.
How about the allegory of the cave. It teaches that some people see things differently from others and it’s hard for a person to accept things as true when they can’t see it for themselves. Try looking at philosophy crash course. It helps
Give me some time to ponder. The one fellow I first thought of was born too late.
Philosopher: Thales
Philosophy: Everything is water
Joking aside, I have two recommendations.
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Shoot. Nevermind, I just deleted two huge paragraphs on Camus and Sarte because I realized they were born 4 and 12 years too late. Darn, and they had some really cool ideas too. I'll come back to this and try another philosopher later. I guess Zeno is always good with his notion that all motion is impossible. I'd be a short chapter though, so he'd probably need to be paired up with a couple of other old one-hit-wonder greeks.
Aside from those two Frenchmen, as a general fun resource I'd recommend Existential Comics, which has all sorts of philosophers (and occasionally others) interacting in (usually) mundane ways as they discreetly teach the reader their philosophies.
I'm going to have to do a bit of reading and research to get back to you on some suggestions when I am not at work :D.