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Hey guys, quick question: Can any of you recommend a good phone shop? I remember hearing about two different ones in Maynooth; one was really bad and scammed people out of money, and the other was said to be run by really nice, helpful people. So if any of y'all can tell me the name of either, I'd really appreciate it
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Ah awesome that is good to hear
cool to see a tutor move up to full lecturer, wonder how common that is in universities. And the Philosophy department is probably the best I am in contact with along with Anthropology...English shall follow the nothing nice to say don't say anything at all rule for the moment. :P
On a completely different subject do you think it would be OK to just use a few of Plato's works and dialogues as reference for an essay on the philosophy of Socrates along with a few web articles? Went into the library today and everything on Socrates was cleared out.
Anthropology gets my 'if you can't say anything nice...' award.
If you are looking for sources we were always told the Stanford Philosophy website was ok to use....Stanford.edu i think.0 -
Thanks completely forgot about Ebrary , have never heard any mention of Jstor before.
It's an online repository of journal articles. Very handy. If you're accessing from home, you need to login to the electronic resources section of the library site first, just like with EBRARY.
Since it's for an essay, I have a suggestion. When you find an article you think might be interesting don't just sit down and start reading it. First read the essay question a few times. Then read the article introduction, and the first line of every paragraph after that. You'll figure out much quicker if the article is any use to you. No sense wasting hours on a boring 20 page article you don't need. So skim through first, then if it's relevant, read it properly.0 -
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Possibly the most tedious uninteresting module I'll ever take part in. Shame the lecture is a nice lad.
I actually liked that module last year, I think I was the only one in the class who did!
On the bright side, if it's anything like the last few years (especially last year) then the exam will be great 0 -
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Bantersoc.
Anyone know if they are doing/have done anything?
Signed up on fairsday more through curiosity then anything else and never heard anything back.
Is it just this years attempt at trying to do ladsoc again?
They had a meeting on Tuesday I think, my friend went to it!
They have a fb page here with all their shizz iswellhttps://www.facebook.com/NuimBanterSoc?fref=ts 0 -
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How do i access books on Ebrary? I can log in using my nuim account on jstor but I cant get anything on ebrary.
Should say to log in using your student number and password, then go to electronic resources, ebooks and should see ebrary academic complete for all the books on the database. 0 -
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Aye, I figured it out. Thanks Socrates will be the death of me.
I am doing the Socrates essay too, have 4 books from the ebrary which should help me back up all the point I want to make. Not going to start it til tomorrow though since I want to squeeze out 800 words on Kant's Categorical Imperative tonight.
What sort of approach you taking with Socrates? Seems to me that he had a pretty basic philosophy himself and then Plato used him as a mouthpiece for his own ideas.0 -
I am doing the Socrates essay too, have 4 books from the ebrary which should help me back up all the point I want to make. Not going to start it til tomorrow though since I want to squeeze out 800 words on Kant's Categorical Imperative tonight.
What sort of approach you taking with Socrates? Seems to me that he had a pretty basic philosophy himself and then Plato used him as a mouthpiece for his own ideas.
Is the Kant thing for a tutorial presentation? I did mine on the The Milesians in the first week, its easy enough I have to say. I enjoyed presenting it.
I'm struggling to find an angle to approach the Socrates essay tbh, there's so much info out there. I will probably just go through the various aspects of his philosophy, with references to Plato and some of the texts I found, and add in my own opinion. I've probably found the same 4 books as you!0 -
Is the Kant thing for a tutorial presentation? I did mine on the The Milesians in the first week, its easy enough I have to say. I enjoyed presenting it.
I'm struggling to find an angle to approach the Socrates essay tbh, there's so much info out there. I will probably just go through the various aspects of his philosophy, with references to Plato and some of the texts I found, and add in my own opinion. I've probably found the same 4 books as you!
Yeah 800 words to read to the group. Won't be too hard to write considering it is pretty much a speech, no sourcing woooo
I am the same, pretty difficult to write about the philosophy of someone who never wrote a word on his own thoughts.
I think I will take a pretty broad approach to it, do a pretty big section on the difficulty of pinning down Socrates' thoughts in an intro then use some ideas from the dialogues. Probably are some of the same books since I just typed in Socrates and took them all pretty near the top LOL. Great thing about philosophy is there is no wrong answer so should be OK as long as keep everything well sourced and well argued. 0 -
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Yeah 800 words to read to the group. Won't be too hard to write considering it is pretty much a speech, no sourcing woooo
I am the same, pretty difficult to write about the philosophy of someone who never wrote a word on his own thoughts. I think I will take a pretty broad approach to it, do a pretty big section on the difficulty of pinning down Socrates' thoughts in an intro then use some ideas from the dialogues. Probably are some of the same books since I just typed in Socrates and took them all pretty near the top LOL. Great thing about philosophy is there is no wrong answer so should be OK as long as keep everything well sourced and well argued.
I typed up an 800 word speech and ran a PowerPoint along side it. Got all my info off the philosophy encyclopaedia online. Do we have to do a presentation for each module?
Yeah that's a good point, all points of view are acceptable as long as you can back it up. Getting my thoughts onto the paper will be he issue.0 -
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