I graduated college after a severe traumatic brain injury.

Things We Forget

By Gentle Witch

Graduated college with a double major

Former federal government employee

  • Socrates (character of Plato)

    Having dinner with Plato as Socrates would be amazing just to hear what he thinks society got right — and wrong — thousands of years later. If you could have…

  • If I could have dinner with any philosopher, I would have dinner with Sheryll Tuttle Ross. Sheryll Tuttle Ross is a philosophy professor at the university of Wisconsin in La…

  • Sheryll Tuttle Ross

    If I could have dinner with any philosopher, I would have dinner with Sheryll Tuttle Ross. Sheryll Tuttle Ross is a philosophy professor at the university of Wisconsin in La…

  • Simone de Beauvoir

    Simone de Beauvoir

    I think dinner with Simone de Beauvoir would be fascinating. I’d want to hear her thoughts on modern relationships and independence. If you could have dinner with any philosopher, who…

  • Ayn Rand

    If I had to pick one philosopher to have dinner with, it would be Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand was a Russian-American philosopher and writer, and her discussion of the conflict…

  • Confucious

    Confucious

    I’d love to sit down with Confucius and talk about wisdom, relationships, and how to live a meaningful life.

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    Friedrich Nietzsche

    Dinner with Friedrich Nietzsche would either change my perspective or make me question everything for a week straight.

  • Socrates

    I’d choose Socrates because I feel like every answer would turn into another question, and somehow I’d leave the dinner knowing myself better. If you could have dinner with any…

  • Heidegger (1889-1976)

    If I could have dinner with any philosopher, I would choose Heidegger. Heidegger was a German philosopher whose work was central to the development of phenomenology and existentialism. Phenomenology studies…

  • Thomas Hobbes

    Thomas Hobbes

    Bellum omnium contra omnes is Latin for “a state of war in which everyone is against everyone,” or Thomas Hobbes’s idea of the state of human nature.