Author Archives: Melissa Teo

The (Queens’) Speech

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Melissa Teo

Last week we had some time to think about a mock election and the components of rhetoric that are employed in the media. Our group decided to take a “green matriarchy” position in terms of political stance (with the tag … Continue reading →

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The Hyphen

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Melissa Teo

These past two weeks, we’ve obviously covered several broad and differing topics: the notion of the Self/Other, and race relations. In discussing these, I think of my own relationship with my consciousness of being, and in thinking about defining (from … Continue reading →

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A linguistic/philosophical analysis of “to define”.

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Melissa Teo

Part 1: Defining define According to various sources on the internet (which I will cite accordingly in a moment), the word define is one of those words that does not currently mean the same thing as it did in Middle … Continue reading →

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Public vs. Private, and Social Media

Posted on January 14, 2018 by Melissa Teo

I figured that I would write my post about the notion of public and private knowledge, relative to enlightenment, since I didn’t really understand it in Kant’s “What is Enlightenment?” (1784). Upon some closer reading, this is what I’ve come … Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Melissa Teo

Welcome to the class blog for ASTU 400T – 2018. This is a Student Directed Seminar. We will be posting blog responses, articles, links to texts and videos, and more!

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