New Chapter
It appears that the graduation of the 04s will continue despite my fervent hopes to contrary. Their graduation will be the first test of whether my friendships are larger than the space-time contexts in which they occur. Although I would like say that they and Dartmouth haven't changed me at all. The friends that I keep have all made their particular stamp on my personality and lifestyle choices. Without them I would not be the person that I am today. From musical tastes to opinions about the world to political and social philosophies, the dialogical and transformative nature of my relationships with my friends have substantially changed me from freshman year until now. I consider these changes to be a natural part of the self-reflexivity and imaginative capacity (these two terms I borrow from Hegel and an Arenditan reading of the Kant's Critique of Taste) of a personal maturation process. In laymen's terms, the changes which I believe that all socially aware human beings undergo is to increase the number of lifestyles and points of view that they can imagine others having and to experience a never-ending process of self-critique and self-creation.
It appears that the graduation of the 04s will continue despite my fervent hopes to contrary. Their graduation will be the first test of whether my friendships are larger than the space-time contexts in which they occur. Although I would like say that they and Dartmouth haven't changed me at all. The friends that I keep have all made their particular stamp on my personality and lifestyle choices. Without them I would not be the person that I am today. From musical tastes to opinions about the world to political and social philosophies, the dialogical and transformative nature of my relationships with my friends have substantially changed me from freshman year until now. I consider these changes to be a natural part of the self-reflexivity and imaginative capacity (these two terms I borrow from Hegel and an Arenditan reading of the Kant's Critique of Taste) of a personal maturation process. In laymen's terms, the changes which I believe that all socially aware human beings undergo is to increase the number of lifestyles and points of view that they can imagine others having and to experience a never-ending process of self-critique and self-creation.
