While courtly love was mostly a literary genre exploited by troubadours and poets such as Dante, in practice, it may have been very well been an actual phenomenon, or at least a cultural aspect strong enough to survive in chivalric traditions still extant to our days, most particularly in England, where the Order of the …
According to Zeland, the essence of a pendulum could be summed up in the phrase, “Stop doing what you are doing and, instead, do what I do.” This is very obvious in the case of advertisement and spiritual preaching, but what about more subtle scenarios?
“Without genuine, deep inwardness, we cannot take a stand against the inauthenticity of the world. Fighting noise with more noise will not do. In doing so, inevitably, the crowd becomes the measure, just as political chatter so easily becomes the content of our thinking.”
Kimber’s novels share common virtues, however: they are all fast-paced, entertaining thrillers that are as intellectually stimulating as they are page-turners. Kimber’s aim is the same as that of his literary exemplar, Colin Wilson: to write with a “wide-angled vision” that does not “merely reflect the everyday” – the ordinariness of a life lived at …
Water flows; its flow can be used to generate electricity. What can a philosopher’s thoughts generate? A longstanding answer from the classical tradition is that philosophy is an intimate part of the good life, having something to do with generating order in the human soul and in the political community.
One of the fundamental doors to reach this state of sublimation is the shamanic ecstasy, which grants the subject a return to the primordiality that precedes what is symbolically understood as the fall from the state of grace, sometimes understood as a sort of evolutionary attempt to expand the genetic consciousness. In other words, the …
Even before the publication of Stephen Marche’s Atlantic piece, “The College Essay is Dead,” there had already been discussions about AI writing programs like ChatGPT in the academy. But the past few months have seen a flurry of activity with college administrators calling emergency meetings, professors changing their assignments, and educators writing essays (some perhaps written by AI?) that range in reaction …
There is a Parmenidean inclination of the state apparatus, according to Thoreau if we take into account the following reflection of Nietzsche: “But Heraclitus will be eternally right in saying that being is an empty fiction.
Instead, based on the narrative of the movie, Napoleon only seeks to escape Elba to meet Josephine again because he is infuriated by the rumors of her contact with the Russian Tsar. It is outrageous because there is no possible way that the people producing the film did not know that Napoleon was well informed …
Habermas, on the other hand, talks more about procedural popular sovereignty. The difference with Arendt lies in his understanding of autonomy. Whereas Arendt, like Carl Schmitt, identifies political autonomy with a specific public space in which citizens confront each other face to face, for Habermas, Kelsen, and Luhmann autonomy is a characteristic of a specific …
