I blog again.

Posted by Colin Temple on January 13, 2009 in Religion, University

A post per month is good, right?  Yeah, yeah… it’s been a while since I’ve put pen to virtual paper and updated this blog.  I should have made a resolution out of it.  But life is busy and I’m back in school after a relaxing holiday.

But actually I’m expecting to have more to say as we kick off a new term.  Last time, my courses included mostly History, Essay Writing and only the most basic Philosophy in Critical Thinking.  This time around, I have two Philosophy courses, a Religion course (in Witchcraft & the Occult, no less), Psychology and Greek Mythology.

I spent the last couple of days resuming my reading, and I’m reacquainting myself with one of my favourite works in Philosophy, The Myth of Sisyphus.  In this brief essay, and its accompanying writings, Albert Camus outlines the absurd — that is, the contrast between the human desire for meaning, and the meaninglessness of the world.

Tonight, my Fundamental Philosophical Questions lecture & discussion will center around two questions of Religion: Does religion give life meaning?  How can one know whether or not God exists?  We were assigned readings on Augustine, Aquinas, Camus, Kant, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, to name a few.

Needless to say–but for some reason I say anyways–I’m excited to be studying this stuff in a school setting.  That is something new for me.  Hopefully I’ll have lots more to say on these matters soon.