Graham Oppy

He's a philosopher of religion

its okay, i dont really think about religion at all anymore

I generally enjoy the way Nietzsche resonates with younger people, @Throttles.

Most of my students are somewhat aware of who he was, albeit through wrong understanding of his ideas, and they are, generally speaking, eager to know a bit more.

I would say in terms of interaction with the class, overall interesting topics and subsequent fun events, his perspectivism is probably among the funniest things I've ever had to talk about.

And, of course, every pseudo-nihilistic, anti-religious teen loves yelling "God is dead".

Duh.

Kant is a nightmare to teach. Nobody cares about him.

So is Locke.

So is Spinoza.

The god is dead stuff is just as toxic as the atheists are evil people

That's completely untrue.

Dude

Go over his dinner parties @Vlad

And make your students act one out

"God is dead" has nothing to do with refuting the existence of any given god in the first place, @Cobra Commander.

Kant is like

Hysterical

We actually did this in uni, Gerry.

I could be a professor

Our professors would gather, combine us into groups, assign a philosophical stance to each of us, and make is debate things.

The most fun I've ever had studying, period.

Dude do it with your students

I can't. I don't teach uni.

I bet they would appreciate it too

These kids have no idea about anything.

Awe

And the volume we need to cover is extensive.

This year's book is around 400 pages.

I didn't say anything regarding that, I said "god is dead" is just as toxic as "atheists are all bad"

Oh, I see how you meant it.

Fair enough.

as in both are equally unproductive things to say or believe

Depends on what kind of conversation you use them in, but sure, I can see that.

The latter is toxic for sure.

Both are just antagonistic

They can be, yeah.

@Vlad What about Hegel lol

So is "all religious people are bad", you might as well just stop the conversation with stuff like this

I've had a lot of issues in my first years with Hegel.