By now you’ve all seen the new Star Wars trailer, so, philosofriends…
“I find your bad faith disturbing” — Sartre Vader
In a Possible World Far, Far Away
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News for & about the philosophy profession
By now you’ve all seen the new Star Wars trailer, so, philosofriends…
“I find your bad faith disturbing” — Sartre Vader
“Help me David Hume, you’re my only hope.” — Jesse Prinzess Leia
Oh, no. Oh, please, no. No more thinly disguised institutional coping.
“If you strike me down, I will become more powerful then you can possibly imagine.”–Socrates
“I won’t lie to a cop. These are the droids you are looking for. But harming them would be unjust.”–Socrates
“Where are you going, stormtroopers, doing nothing that you ought – aurgh!”–Socrates
“Sophists frighten easily, but they’ll be back and in greater numbers”–Socrates
“When 900 years old you reach, look as good, you will not.” — Maimonides
“It’s a trap!” — Overheard on a footbridge
“No, Lewis – I am your father.”
*Incredulous stare*
“Who’s scruffy-lookin’?” — Any number of philosophers, really
“That’s no moon, it’s a space station.” — Leibniz
“The Forms will be with you. Always.” -Plato-wan Kenobi
“Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design.” -Emperor William Paleytine
“Yoosa should alwaysa maxisimize the good, okeeday?” – J.J.B. Smart
“If you’re really my father, we have a whole lot of reparation ahead of us.” -Margaret Urban Skywalker
“If everything is necessarily mgrrrwaaaaaarggggh, then it is necessary that everything is mgrrrwaaaaaarggggh.” — Chewbarcan Marcus
“Laugh it up, fuzzball!” Simone de Beauvoir
(according to my brother)
“luminous beings are we, not this crude matter” George Yoghurt Berkeley
“Sorry about the mess.” Heidegger Solo
“He’s the brains, sweetheart!” Wittgenstein on Ramsey
“Art is institutionally defined” — R2Danto
“Never tell me the odds!” –Hájek Solo
“I am fluent in over six million forms of communication but understand none of them” — Searle3PO
“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.” Yoda van Inwagen
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the (expressive) power of the predicate calculus.
“I have a bad feeling about this”
Thales-out stargazing
Socrates- The apology
Descartes–on his way to Sweden
Kant- Picking up the Enquiry for the first time
Frege- opening a letter from Russell
(I think the line occurs seven times in SW so I need two more)