Next Wednesday, in meeting room 4C, Toiletoverflowing will present the next in his series of philosophy lectures. This time, he will dissect the philosophy of Kant.
Next Wednesday’s lecture will be somewhat unique for Toiletoverflowing in that it will be divided into three segments. Attendees will be served milk and cookies in the intermissions. Participants will also be encouraged to take brief naps during these breaks.
In the first part of the lecture Toiletoverflowing will present an overview of the philosophy of Kant. He will focus on the extreme negativity of the Kant viewpoint.
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After finally ending a lengthy spiritual retreat in his apartment, in which he used deep meditation to achieve a five-month-long comatose state, Toiletoverflowing is back and ready to resume his wearisome life. Jumping or, more accurately, barely ambling back into his old life, he has decided to resume his wholeheartedly eschewed philosophy lecture series.
This coming Wednesday, Toiletoverflowing will expand on a lecture he gave about a year ago, Being and Nothingness. Next Wednesday’s talk carries that topic forward under the title, On Being and Nothingness: Why Being is Better.
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It had been a few weeks since Toiletoverflowing held one of his delightfully spurned lectures on philosophy, but he was back at the lectern yesterday with a rare lunchtime talk.
In the past, he has discussed some of the deepest of philosophical thought from noted philosophers of yesterday and today, and from around the world. His topics have included an examination of Pascal’s declaration “I think therefore I am.” And he has addressed some of the crucial subcomponents of classic philosophy, such as being and nothingness, epistemology and mind/body duality. Prior to yesterday, he most recently discussed one of the more common philosophical maxims, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.”
Yesterday’s talk was focused much closer to home. At his lunchtime lecture, Toiletoverflowing tackled the entire depth and breadth of Shalampaxian philosophy, right down to its finest detail.
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Many people categorize themselves and others as either glass-half-full or glass-half-empty sort of people. As a rule, Shalampaxians don’t think that way.
Our perspective on the glass-half-full or glass-half-empty attitude is, “Who the hell cares about that preposterous, pretentious bullshit. Shut up, leave me alone and let me finish my drink in peace.
“After that, if you want to buy me another round—preferably a full glass, so we don’t have to waste any time dwelling on whether it’s half full or half empty—I’ll certainly accept it.
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Next Wednesday, in meeting room 4D, Toiletoverflowing will give another of his mind-numbing talks on philosophy. I don’t think he planned it this way, but it would appear that his sessions are turning into an ongoing series, with lectures consistently held whenever the hell Toiletoverflowing feels like it.
Next week’s talk will be on the mind/body dualism theory, which falls within the philosophy of the mind. Mind/body dualism postulates that the mind and body are two distinct and separate entities.
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On Friday, Toiletoverflowing will hold another session in his much-ignored, intermittently scheduled philosophy lecture series. The topic for this Friday’s lecture is epistemology, which is the study of knowledge and justified belief.
Toiletoverflowing will focus on the question, is knowledge truly knowable or does what we call “knowledge” consist of merely a set of beliefs that we have come to accept as justified? Furthermore, are those justifications based on verifiable, reproducible, tangible facts external to us or have the justifications been built and accepted solely within our minds? In other words, is knowledge and our perception of truth real or only an illusion?
Unlike was the case before his last talk, I have not been able to obtain a copy of Toiletoverflowing’s notes for this week’s lecture, so I can’t comment on its merits. However, I expect it to be one of his shorter philosophy talks as it is widely known that Toiletoverflowing believes that all knowledge, including the knowledge of whether knowledge is knowable, is unknowable. The impossibility of knowing knowledge, if that is the case, raises the question of why he bothers to give lectures at all, but never mind.
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