Back from Hattiesburg

I’m back to classes this week after my trip to Hattiesburg (more on that trip here).  I’ve been having fun doing all this writing for the blog and I think it’s inspired my creative side.  While sitting in my Medieval Philosophy class listening to the discussion about Aristotle’s metaphysics and, according to Maimonides, our ability to only assign negative attributes to God, I had a wonderful idea.  How about discussing metaphysics from the viewpoint of a Gingerbread Man?  Below is the beginnings of my work in progress, I hope you enjoy it and someday i may post the completed work; if I ever complete it.

Metaphysics of a Gingerbread Man

A loose translation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics as gingerbread man

On batter and recipe

It is obvious that the thing which differentiates every gingerbread man, one from another, is in it’s batter not the recipe. There is but one recipe for gingerbread men which is used by the unbaked baker. The unbaked baker does not reach into his cabinet and pull out a different recipe from a larger recipe to create a gingerbread man but rather uses the same recipe for every gingerbread man. Yet there are differences between gingerbread men. It is obvious that these differences must therefore come from the batter which makes each gingerbread man and not the recipe used by the unbaked baker.