Right now I'm in the library study room (air-conditioned, yay!) drinking a chilled Starbucks dark chocolate raspberry mocha frappuccino. I bought them at the Giant last week on a whim while looking for honey in the coffee isle (what, it made sense at the time). It's been awhile since the last time I had one -- I think they used to have dark chocolate peppermint the first winter I went to school at BCC ... so I guess it was probably the winter of '07. Of course they were exorbitantly overpriced then, it being the BCC food court. Probably like $5 for just one of these little 9-oz glass bottles. I wouldn't be surprised. But it's not that expensive to buy a 4-pack at the grocery store, so I figured what the hey, I may as well splurge on my last week of school. Its a good energy builder for my early morning classes.
Other than that, I'm trying to decide which questions to choose for the Philosophy of Ethics take-home exam essays. I'm considering writing about how a Buddhist might critique Kantian ethics or Aristotle's Nichomachean ethics, because that sounded like an interesting topic. But I'm not sure where to start. I don't really have that firm a grasp on what a Buddhist would think of either of these. Even though I am more interested in Buddhism than any of the other viewpoints we studied in ethics class. It's strange how life works out sometimes isn't it? Anyway. One thing I thought of is how Aristotle thought everyone should be as well-rounded in their virtues as possible and if I remember right, he valued courage and I think he might have supported the killing of others (like in warfare) for reasons he might see as ethical (again this could be wrong but I'm just brainstorming from a vague memory here) ... and a Buddhist is not supposed to kill or allow the killing of anyone ... so that could be one aspect I could write about. Not quite sure where I'm going with this .... I guess I'd better go look into it .....
Yeah. Nothing like brainstorming while blogging. Welcome to finals week in my lazy, unmotivated, procrastinating mind.
Other than that, I'm trying to decide which questions to choose for the Philosophy of Ethics take-home exam essays. I'm considering writing about how a Buddhist might critique Kantian ethics or Aristotle's Nichomachean ethics, because that sounded like an interesting topic. But I'm not sure where to start. I don't really have that firm a grasp on what a Buddhist would think of either of these. Even though I am more interested in Buddhism than any of the other viewpoints we studied in ethics class. It's strange how life works out sometimes isn't it? Anyway. One thing I thought of is how Aristotle thought everyone should be as well-rounded in their virtues as possible and if I remember right, he valued courage and I think he might have supported the killing of others (like in warfare) for reasons he might see as ethical (again this could be wrong but I'm just brainstorming from a vague memory here) ... and a Buddhist is not supposed to kill or allow the killing of anyone ... so that could be one aspect I could write about. Not quite sure where I'm going with this .... I guess I'd better go look into it .....
Yeah. Nothing like brainstorming while blogging. Welcome to finals week in my lazy, unmotivated, procrastinating mind.
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