The Difference

[apolliana]

Between my undergraduate education and the experience undergraduates here in philosophy courses have.... This is more to the point, and more intellectually rigorous (in terms of the material presented); there is more 'analysis' in what the students hear, since they're hearing it from professional analysts. But there's a kind of reverence that isn't. I miss the sense that each book could be expected to have something to say to my soul, and that I needed to be able to hear it when it did. Being trusted to figure something out on your own confers a sense of honor and responsibility.

I like feeling like there is a way of thinking that I need to find, and that finding it will require all my faculties--empathetic, intellectual, aesthetic--to be open, and which itself might involve all of them.