On Fridays I only have one class and it is at 9 am in the morning. Some people may be thinking "Hot tamales that is early!"(well, some Mexican people) but I consider it very advantageous to my schedule. Friday is the last day where I feel like doing anything productive before the weekend and so starting it off as early as possible really gives me time to accomplish the day's missions. However, this sometimes creates short-circuiting in my brain early in the day.
During class we were discussing the ideas rendered to the Westerner society via Plato and Aristotle. I have read, written, spoken, and on occasion drawn these two for the last two weeks. I felt a bit like an authority on the subjects. So, I chose to bring up negative aspects of their philosophies every time someone made a statement about the idealisms presented. Now, I shall let you in a little secret I had apparently forgotten. The name of this class is HISTORY of Psychology, not the Philosophy of the History of Psychology, nor the History of Philosophy from a Psychological Perspective, but History of Psychology, pointing to the underlining idea. Therefore, whenever the teacher asks a philosophic question like "what is truth?", going into a minute tangent on materialism vs meta-physical idealisms in the general population is not the best use of class time.
Now I am going to finish submitting my essays for scholarships and hope I do not forget the point of the essays. The thoughts I have to ponder for today are: is knowledge only useful if applied in the context it originated from, where is the line between rambling and being a history professor, and did Plato Eat himself?
Makes me wish I were a History prof.
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