On Polemarchus: Commentary on the Republic of Plato, 331d-336a (part 2)
Aside: A commentary on Federalist 51 is up at “The Irate Nation,” if you’re curious. On Polemarchus: Commentary on the Republic of Plato, 331d...
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On Polemarchus: Commentary on the Republic of Plato, 331d-336a (part 1)
Thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday! I was going to title this post “life in hell,” because things are really blah – I have g...
Democracy’s Mysticism: Thoughts on "All Religions are One," by Blake
All Religions are One William Blake The Voice of one crying in the Wilderness The Argument. As the true method of knowledge is experiment, the true faculty of k...
On Heidegger
“Introduction to metaphysics” accordingly means: leading into the asking of the fundamental question. But questions, and above all fundamental quest...
Ranting About Despair
And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even now and then, by the concealed power of this question [“Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?̶...