The other week I was teaching my philosophy class about Nietsche's ideas of art in The Birth of Tragedy. Nietsche's ideas (which I think are borrowed from Kant and Schopenhaer) heavily feature Greek mythology, particularly Apollo and Dionysus. I've followed this up with reading for an essay that has required me to think about sacrifice …
November: the penultimate month of the year. It sits as a sort of liminal space between the start of Spring (in Australia) and the end of the year festivities. For the teachers like myself, exams are mostly done (reports yet to be written). Lesson content easing off (time to find the educational games). We’re so …
This post comes to you as I reflect on a philosophy lesson I taught two days ago. It's getting towards the end of term in NSW and I've explored an overview of western philosophy with Year 9. Well, more honestly, we've danced across the surface of western philosophy. There's no way you can even go …
I’ve been reflecting on some of Plato’s ideas recently, as I’ve been teaching them this year. Plenty of things that Plato thought and taught are questionable, including his idea of forms. This being, that the perfect, ideal form of anything actually exists in another realm and we have an innate or instinctive understanding of what …