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[[Study|Studying]] [[OUA-BA]].
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Write an essay: "I like it because I like it" -- strange loop, preference for 'feel' or 'aesthetic' moral judgements. It looks better and feels better and I like it better. Quote Pirsig and the Church of Reason. Question the primacy and legitimacy of 'reasonable' (rational/formal/idealic/mathematical) conclusions. One consequential axiom gives rise to a tautology: I like it because I like it. Reason undoes itself.
Write an essay: "I like it because I like it" -- strange loop, preference for 'feel' or 'aesthetic' moral judgements. It looks better and feels better and I like it better. Quote Pirsig and the Church of Reason. Question the primacy and legitimacy of 'reasonable' (rational/formal/idealic/mathematical) conclusions. One consequential axiom gives rise to a tautology: I like it because I like it. Reason undoes itself. Godel incompleteness, Turing halting-problem, p!=np, Pirsig and Values, deconstruction/postmodernism, art.

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2013/4 PHI110: Philosophy, Morality and Society

Studying OUA-BA.

Write an essay: "I like it because I like it" -- strange loop, preference for 'feel' or 'aesthetic' moral judgements. It looks better and feels better and I like it better. Quote Pirsig and the Church of Reason. Question the primacy and legitimacy of 'reasonable' (rational/formal/idealic/mathematical) conclusions. One consequential axiom gives rise to a tautology: I like it because I like it. Reason undoes itself. Godel incompleteness, Turing halting-problem, p!=np, Pirsig and Values, deconstruction/postmodernism, art.