To think that I could succeed in my thesis would be to have hubris beyond belief. Given my intellectual and other limitations, here's all that I can hope to do:
* Succeed in an unambitious project
* Fail in an ambitious project
I started thinking I was going to succeed in an unambitious project, yet here I am defending moral realism, grappling with Epistemic Realism!
Here's the only way that I can save myself from obvious failure: I need to hedge. I need to say something like, "This is a good way for the Moral Realist" instead of saying "I think that this is true." Expect a significant hedge, acknowledgment that I'm not up to the task of really defending all of the issues that I raise, to be an important theme in the introductory matter in my thesis.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Sorry to hear about it. Well, I think what’s good about it is that you can still try another time. You can improve the thesis that you already did. And from the sounds of your story, I bet it would be easy for you to finish it up and defend it.
Post a Comment