Category: Greeks
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… you learn degree by degree.” Love is artifice, a construction. It is μίμησις; ποιέσις. It is, what Heidegger calls in “Die Frage nach der Technik” the “irruption of the… more ›
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I am certain that Barak Obama and his Obamanations are quite nice people. Senator Obama unquestioningly and with certitude will defend Israel’s right to exist. Yet certainly Palestinians, too, have… more ›
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Procopius said is best: So the church has become a spectacle of marvelous beauty, overwhelming to those who see it, but to those who know it by hearsay altogether incredible.… more ›
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Saturday, May 17, 2008, Turkoman Hotel, Istanbul Last night we went on the obligatory people-watching pilgrimage to Taksim in what used to be the Genoese colony of Pera that is… more ›
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View Larger Map Just a short trip to Istanbul and an even shorter stop in London on the return flight. I’ll post photos when I get back. more ›
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I wonder if I’ll ever post to this blog again. I wonder if my days will ever stop being so damned full of foolishness and nonsense and incessant busywork. I… more ›
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Conversation over breakfast of Swiss oatmeal this morning included Alan Watts’ lecture over the coincidence of opposites, Huston Smith’s Zen training, and the metaphysics of becoming (as opposed to the… more ›
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This afternoon I had my students do a close reading of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave for the entire class period, and I have to say that they did an… more ›
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This afternoon I had my students do a close reading of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave for the entire class period, and I have to say that they did an… more ›
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To what extent is the unburied corpse in Greek literature an indictment against the Zoroastrian practice of allowing wild dogs and birds to devour the flesh of the dead in… more ›