Electives
Chugga chugga choo choo! Leo Marx describes America as a
Machine in the garden
Happy Valentines Day! God said this to Adam when He saw Adam was lonely.
"It is not good for man to be alone."
Really sticky air
Blow out those birthday candles. According to Freud, our religious ideas come from...
Wish fulfillment
Don't drink the hemlock!
The Death of Socrates
She is the star of Canto V as well as a hit Hozier song.
Francesca
Nasty, brutish, and short
Hobbes
A delicious dip made from chickpeas.
Hummus
J.B. is a modern-day retelling of this biblical story.
Story of Job
Durham Cathedral
Dr. Mrs. Tomko
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's the Overman? Nietzsche uses this word to describe the highest human being.
The Ubermensch
Locke and key: these three are our natural rights protected by the government.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property
A bumpy whale
Humpback
Man, stop projecting. Phlio represents this type of person in Dialogue Concerning Natural Religion.
The skeptic (Hume)
Mary's fiat
The Annunciation
"MY PRECIOUS!" In Lord of the Rings, this was Gollum's name before he became obsessed with the ring.
Smeagol
A good proper to and attainable only by the community, yet individually shared in by its members.
Common good
Scrooge's tagline in A Christmas Carol
Bahumbug!
"You're like... so old". The main difference between the "New Atheist" movement and traditional atheism.
Moral claim on religion. Religion is fundamentally evil and you need to eradicate it.
The Light of the World
Dr. Ogle
Oh baby, I'm "Blue". This singer prompted Zadie Smith's writings on attunement.
Joni Mitchell
Hates fellowship of equality under God and seeks to impose its own dominion.
Pride
Go flap those wings! A teeny tiny singer who flies.
Hummingbird
You can't tell me what to do! This is knowledge of God through negation.
Apophatic theology
Mmmmmm, I could really go for a milkshake.
Nighthawks