Introduction

Hello!

My name is Tom Leidenfrost and this is my last semester at MCLA. I am an FPA: Theater Concentration who has a strong interest in both performance and life. My yearning to understand came about through theater which I started participating in around 10th grade. Further along in high school I was introduced to philosophical principles and ideas during my senior year. Since then I've been trying to understand why I act and what it can do to benefit people by investigating and converging various aspects of life. This is why I am happy to have had a liberal arts education as it allowed me to connect ideas that I would not have thought were possible. To me theater and philosophy are almost one and the same for both are in the pursuit of truth. Thus the art of questioning and thinking are fundamental to both fields. This is why I decided to get a philosophy minor and why I am in the course. It will be interesting to see what connections I can draw into my future work from the knowledge gained in this class.