User:LogographicNecessity

About me

LogographicNecessity

Biographical miscellany

SJCThis user is a Johnnie!

This user attends or attended the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

¶This user is a professional editor.

This user lives in or hails from Huntsville, "The Rocket City".

This user is a bibliophile.

This user's library contains over 1,000 books.

This user contributes with an IBM Model M keyboard.

This user contributes using a

ThinkPad.

This user employs dialectics as an analytical framework.

This user worships their cat.

This user has visited 8 of the 63 National Parks in the United States.8

This user is a witness to the early days of the Internet

Interests

This user is interested in classical Greek philosophy.

This user is interested in Islamic philosophy

This user is interested in the Enlightenment.

This user is interested in German intellectual history

ﷲThis user is interested in Islam.

This user is interested in
Islamic civilizations.

This user is interested in Protestant culture.

✝This user is interested in Protestantism.

This user is interested in the human soul or spirit.

This user is interested in moral realism.

This user is interested in philosophical hermeneutics.

This user is interested in
the history of law.

This user is interested in
ancient Greece.

This user is interested in
ancient Rome.

This user is interested in the history of the Middle East.

This user is interested in the early modern period.

This user is interested in the
American Revolution.

This user is interested in the
early American republic.

This user is interested in the industrial revolution.

This user is interested in the
Cold War.

This user is interested in the
space age.

This user is interested in the digital revolution.

This user has a keen interest in the philosophy of physics.

This user is interested in astronomy.

This user is interested in cosmology.

This user is interested in psychoanalysis.

Views

This user is an atheist.

This user is a naturalist, who believes that only natural laws and forces operate in the universe.

This user wants a philosopher king.

This user is a fan of the political principles of Alexis de Tocqueville.

This user is influenced by
Leo Strauss.

This user knows that G. W. F. Hegel was a genius.

This user's favorite pre-Socratic is Heraclitus.

This user is influenced by
Thomas Carlyle.

This user is in awe of The Great Leviathan.

This user is influenced by Wilhelm Dilthey.

This user is influenced by Michel Foucault.

This user is influenced by Hannah Arendt.

This user appreciates Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and is aware of the limits of traditional metaphysics.

This user is an avid reader of Giorgio Agamben.

This user admires Martin Luther.

Friedrich Nietzsche has
influenced this user.

This user likes John Adams.

This user is interested in the life and times of John Quincy Adams.

This user greatly admires
Abraham Lincoln.

This user greatly admires
Teddy Roosevelt and his Big Stick.

This user is a fan of
Richard Nixon.

This user is a republican.

This user is a conservative.

This user is a classical liberal.

This user is influenced by Confucius.

This user supports free software.

Books

This user enjoys the weird fiction of Algernon Blackwood.

This user enjoys reading Borges.

This user loves reading
anything by
Joseph Conrad

1.618... This user is under the influence of Philip K. Dick.

This user enjoys the weird fiction of Lord Dunsany.

WFThis user enjoys the works of William Faulkner.

This user enjoys the weird fiction of William Hope Hodgson.

This user enjoys the ghost stories of M. R. James.

This user enjoys the works of Franz Kafka.

This user enjoys the work of Stanisław Lem.

This user enjoys the weird fiction of Arthur Machen.

This user thinks that Herman Melville is the greatest American novelist.

This user enjoys the works of George Orwell.

This user believes
Robert Louis Stevenson
had a beautiful soul

This user enjoys the poetry of
R. S. Thomas.

This user enjoys the works of
Mark Twain.

This user is a Bible reader.

This user has read 11 of William Shakespeare's plays.

This user has read Capital Volume I.

This user likes to read reference books, like encyclopedias and atlases.

Things I like

This user thinks the pig is a noble creature.

This user likes owls.

This user's favourite colour is green.

This user loves fungi.

This user likes foggy days.

This user loves rainy days.

This user is interested in coastal & marine issues.

This user loves the forest.

This user really likes old computers.

This user drinks Diet Coke religiously.

SEAThis user is a fan of the
Seattle Mariners.

This user is an Alabama Crimson Tide fan. Roll Tide!

This user likes to do crossword puzzles.

This user enjoys playing Sudoku.

IDM	This user listens to intelligent dance music.

This user enjoys ambient music.

This user likes early electronic music

This user enjoys listening to Brian Eno.

This user is a fan of
Aphex Twin.

This user feels the synthetic pulse of Kraftwerk.

This user is a Radiohead fan.

This user loves Martin Scorsese movies.

This user loves films by
David Lynch.

I am a graduate student in philosophy. My primary interests in my field are classical political philosophy, medieval Islamic philosophy, and German idealism. Beyond these professional interests, I am also concerned with ancient Greek and Roman history, the effects of technology on the human soul, and the American regime.