Brian Hamilton » Whining http://www.bdhamilton.com Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:13:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Which discipline? http://www.bdhamilton.com/articles/which-discipline http://www.bdhamilton.com/articles/which-discipline#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:59:48 +0000 Brian Hamilton http://www.bdhamilton.com/?p=644 For the most part I’m quite happy with my decision to end up studying ethics, rather than philosophical or systematic theology, since it’s nearly always the material meaning of philosophical concepts I’m interested in emphasizing. But I do sometimes have a pang of regret, not knowing when it is I’ll finally have a chance to do the kind of reading I’d really like to do in Trinitarian debates, fundamental ecclesiology, etc. It may actually be that I occasionally regret not being a philosopher: what really fascinates me in the Trinitarian debates is the viability and consequence of the thought of the infinite, and my real interest in fundamental ecclesiology has to do with the essential relation between individual and the collective subjects… Though in a philosophy department of the sort that intrigues me, I doubt if I would have been able to think those questions in an unapologetically theological frame; or at least, a great deal of prolegomena would always seem necessary.

Not really saying anything. Especially after a long conversation this afternoon about “making ourselves marketable” to one institutional niche or another, just once again feeling the strictures of academic life that, as often as not, severs thought into so many discrete lifeless pieces.

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