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March 22, 2025
Love, Madness, and Magic: In Search of Lost Words of Power in Plato’s Phaedrus

Love, Madness, and Magic: In Search of Lost Words of Power in Plato’s Phaedrus

“Brhaspati! When they set in motion the first beginning of speech, giving names, their most pure and perfectly guarded secret was revealed through love. When the wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve, then friends recognized their friendships. A good sign was placed on their speech. …

August 23, 2024
Making the Eleatic Stranger: Parmenides and the Phenomenology of Non-Ordinary Reality

Making the Eleatic Stranger: Parmenides and the Phenomenology of Non-Ordinary Reality

“Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind cannot bear very much reality” (T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton). “By this radiance, my child, I swear, by this bright orb which sees and hears us now, that from this being which you now behold, and which rules the world, you have your origin, child of the Sun!” …

February 2, 2022
Mythological Philosophy in the Phaedo

Mythological Philosophy in the Phaedo

In my previous essay, I examined Plato’s four arguments for the immortality of the soul set forth in The Phaedo. Through these arguments, Plato sought to justify a rational faith in the soul’s immortality. Yet Plato did not restrict himself to this rational approach, but also attempted to construct a mythological philosophy to bolster our …

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