Introduction

My name is Rhianna James, I was born and raised in Kansas City Missouri. I enjoy participating in local art shows and various galleries through my painting, although my true passion and major is animation. School is everything to me, I'm eager to get things rolling. I'm constantly feeling the need to stay busy.
Starting from Western Thought II, I felt that the readings from Marx and Freud overwhelmed me with hypocrisy. Later on, Soren Kierkegaard's thoughts on philosophers renewed my interest in Western Thought and what I could apply to my own life. I hope to find that kind of straightforwardness from readings in this class as well. Kierkegaard's belief that philosophers over-analyzed theory, yet never lived true in their ideas, stuck with me.
Coming into this class, I have many opinions and ideas concerning creation, politics, and religion, but feel like I don't have a true grasp or ground to my reasons for thinking. I would like to better identify my self-direction and personal belief systems to a legitimacy. I'd like to gain an actual knowledge of philosophers and early beliefs.
After this class, I'd like to come out of it with some degree of change or new aspect to the way I personally view life, the meaning and point of existence is always intriguing. More practical, it would just be nice to hold an intellectual conversation concerning philosophy and express my own beliefs with an actual understanding and context of the subject.