To know what this means, to know what this feels like, walk into a dark room and, if you’re not stuck in a phase of rolling blackouts as I often am here in South Africa, flick that light switch. Day erupts inside a room, and night is chased into its various corners. The entire environment …
Stephen R. C. Hicks is a Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois, USA, Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and Senior Scholar at The Atlas Society. He is also the author of six books. His writings have been translated into seventeen languages. Aleksandar Todorovski, the Editor in Chief of the Miskatonian, …
The Socratic method seeks to question conventional wisdom to transcend it and thus arrive at a true understanding. Denying one hypothesis does not necessarily mean its counter-hypothesis is true. In this sense, the Socratic method can lead us to the conclusion that an idea is not true, and in that case, it would make us …
While paling in comparison to the achievement of that final goal and worthless without it, the refinement of a cultured life is nevertheless a worthy pursuit. Ideally, as we see so compellingly illustrated in Newman’s own life, the refinement of culture serves as a kind of superadded halo around the halo of holiness, a fringe …
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 …
