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poetryqueer · 3 days ago

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planning document must be going well I just said the words “explaining the endurance of Platonism could be the life I’m living” to myself. Alone. At 2:30am. Because yeah. Could be.

#mrowmrowmrowmrowmrow I should be able to submit the word nya and the word nya alone in place of a second chapter #tumblr gets my planning thoughts because. yeah #I fucking hate chapter 2 so much for being a relations chapter in what began as a relations dissertation #on one hand I feel like I��m insane if I don’t talk about Origen in ReHashing Christian Neoplatonism The Dissertation but on the other hand #it is disingenuous to talk about incorporation of Platonism without addressing the vehement arguments against it #like I was there going what I would love is a good writer/writers between Justin+clem and Augustine and went well big issue is most of the #writings between actively addressing christianity and Platonism as a shared logos are arguing by against so #there is that #(I am at peace ish with the arbitrary decision to do Justin and clem for ch1 because I do think apologetics is the best genre to illustrate #the shift I’m discussing; ideal world would have me using every writer ever but. my supervisor says I can’t do that so)#but also it is so bullshit arbitrary relations chapter #I think it weakens my argumentation as opposed to contextualising it or adding complexity #it’s just like oh you were told to show opposing views and you did #clap clap whatever #I don’t know what it’s saying #in theory I’d love to find something about the root of the difficult of reconciling the two #but also what if I don’t find that #what then #Augustine must be discussed but otherwise every other writer is more or less arbitrary short of perhaps the issue of orthodoxy #but also that is what I get for doing a deeply arbitrary capstone as opposed to something with teeth #past Lewis deciding surely I will find something of substance if I engage in investigation of something I find interesting falling into the #eternal trap of contemporary humanities #things could be framed as an examination of how ideas get incorporated into canon #but also then it’s like why this as an example #and then it’s like well maybe there’s teeth in examining whether this was a part of platonism’s endurance and #you can spend a life explaining the endurance of Platonism #you can’t just say that in your introduction and conclusion and call it a day #connecting to medieval receptions is perhaps my only hope but why do medieval receptions matter I don’t know I am not a medievalist #and i fear I could spend a lifetime examining that #capstone

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