Old Man's Philosophy Lecture II

Ian 2022-10-14 08:54:43

Welcome to the old man's Philosophy Lecture II again, after the end of the game - about human rationality and irrationality. This time, the story happened to a university philosophy professor—and the old man was a duck to water this time: existentialism, antinomy, absolute order, crime and punishment. Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Beauvoir are all at your fingertips. But it is the philosophy of all this that leads a decent and rational college professor to irrational murder, who sees himself as a rational self-salvation in an irrational life. In the first half of the professor's decadence, the "self-loathing" of intellectuals was brought to the extreme. However, after his self-proclaimed "just" murder, he finally intended to kill the female student who knew it, but stepped on the flashlight symbolizing enlightenen and fell into the room. The abyss, extremely ironic, is nothing more than making the intellectuals in front of the screen more indulging in this grand self-destruction concocted by Woody Allen.
The love and entanglement of a professor and a female student is described in one word, bullshit romance. Under the soundtrack of jazz, there is a very annoying but irresistible charm. Maybe it's because Emma Stone is too beautiful. After the magic moonlight, she immediately cooperated with the old man for the second time. You can see the old man's love for her. The stone is also very beautiful in Woody's movie. She tilted her head and determined to seduce the professor. There was a sly gleam in her eyes; she trotted down the green summer lawn, and the finely floral skirt raised fine dust. It was so moving that I called it fascinating most of the night.

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Irrational Man quotes

  • [first lines]

    Abe: [narrating] Kant said human reason is troubled by questions that it cannot dismiss, but also cannot answer. Okay, so, what are we talking about here? Morality? Choice? The randomness of life? Aesthetics? Murder?

    Jill: I think Abe was crazy from the beginning. Was it from stress? Was it anger? Was he disgusted by what he saw as life's never-ending suffering? Or was he simply bored by the meaninglessness of day-to-day existence? He was so damn interesting. And different. And a good talker. And he could always cloud the issue with words.

    Abe: Where to begin? You know, the existentialists feel nothing happens until you hit absolute rock bottom. Well, let's say that when I went to teach at Braylin College, emotionally, I was at Zabriskie Point. Of course, my reputation, or should I say a reputation, preceded me.

  • Abe Lucas: Jill had been right in her appraisal of me. I was teetering on the brink of some kind of breakdown, unable to deal with my feelings of anger, frustration, futility. They say that drowning is a painless way to go.