Charles Badger:
CLASS OF 2007
Piney Woods Country Life High SchoolClass of 2007
Piney wood, MS
Charles's Story
Charles is from Nashville, Tennessee. Charles's schools include Piney Woods Country Life High School.
Music Charles likes includes Kendrick Lamar, Anthony Hamilton Official, Temptations. Books Charles likes include who really cares, The End of Racism, Mis-Education of the Negro. Movies Charles likes include Juice, Beverly Hills Cop, Charlie Wilson's War. TV shows Charles likes include Scandal, Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC, Boston Legal.
One of Charles's favorite quotes is:"1. "...If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say." --Thomas Nagel, The View From Nowhere
2. I know of scarcely one philosopher (Socrates always excepted) who ever raised a problem as a problem. I mean terminally as a problem, not merely by way of entry into his theme...it is in being open to those problems, as problems, that he [the philosopher] acquires Socratic ignorance, which is the same as Socratic wisdom." --Jose Benardete
3. " In general, progress in philosophy is not made by having better and better hunches about the final outcome of a philosophical enquiry, but by deeper analysis of the arguments and counter-arguments that bring us towards that outcome...As we advance, the path twists and turns; by taking a few steps along it, one may find oneself facing in the opposite direction to where the path will eventually terminate...but the important thing was to take those steps, without which we should never get to the end of the path." --Michael Dummett, Truth & Other Enigmas
5. "[all] philosophy is: analyzing assumptions and implications"
"It is rarely the case that...Expand for more
everything ends up just as we wanted it to end up before we started doing philosophy." --Dr. Eric Pearson
4. "At first I must read as though everything stated in the text were true. Only after I have allowed myself to be completely carried away...can meaningful criticism begin." --Karl Jaspers, "On Philosophical Reading"
5. "the fundamental analytic credo--faith in reasoned argument, hope for reasoned agreement, and clarity of reasoned expression (and the greatest of these is clarity)." --Dr. Robert Brandom, Tales of the Mighty Dead
6. “I was never more hated than when I tried to tell the truth. "-- Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man
7. "What passes for public life [these days, is]…Politician[s] without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result is elections without voters."--Gerald R. Ford
8. "Only those who are willing to lose for their convictions deserve to win at the polls." --Gerald R. Ford
9. "Our choice may be between a small, human-sized meaning and a vast meaninglessness, or between the freedom of our virtues and the freedom of our vices. It is only in these bonds that our individuality has a use and a worth; it is only to the people who know us, love us, and depend on us that we are indispensable as the persons we uniquely are." –Wendell Berry, The Art of Common Place
10. "Hurt people hurt people."--bell hooks, We Real Cool
11. "...When a people's freedom disappears, it goes not with a bang, but in silence amid the comfort of care." --Richard Weaver
12. "There are no solutions...there are only trade-offs." --Thomas Sowell".
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