News on Podcasts (and on “Eschatology”)
For my anglophone readers who would also enjoy becoming hearers, I am opening a “Podcasts” menu on my homepage. I have received audios of a number of programs I made
What Philosophy is not – and what it is (update 08.21)
No other area of knowledge suffers so much controversy over what exactly it is as does philosophy. The natural and (even more) the social sciences may harbor ambiguities in their
To my anglophone readers…
The lectures on both Virgil and Lucretius have now been added to the “Humanities” menu. I find them to be among the most memorable of the talks. Also, additions have
Corruptio optimi pessima
The Romans never became the philosophical equals of the Greeks, but, with their instinct for the practical and love of linguistic economy, they gave us a nourishing harvest of Latin
On changes (and the unchanging)
A flame is a thing. That’s why we give it a name and can point to it. The same can be said of a river. But, of course, what these two
Symbols and Symbolism
I was recently asked to reflect on the notion of symbol against the broader horizon of semiotics. This brought me to contrast the image (left) with the world of symbols
On Learning Languages (update July 2021)
As a nine-year-old boy growing up in Kansas, I was once summoned – together with all the neighborhood urchins – to hasten to my best friend’s house to be witness
The Two Antipodes of Transcendence (revision: June ’21)
Many attempts have been offered to defend the theory that only physical reality is real (so-called ‘naturalism’ or ‘materialism’). Although embarrassingly feeble in argument and often unabashedly ideological in inspiration,
The Long Bony Finger
The prophet and the philosopher are both pointers. Prophets point at, philosophers point out. But both point. By doing so, they endeavor to carry to consummation that spontaneous act of
Essay on the cenoscopic/idioscopic revised and published in the USA
On the Cenoscopic and the Idioscopic The edition available in my list of Essays (under the “Works” menu) is actually more interesting, for it includes a number of illustrations. The
The Philosopher and the Poet – Siblings in Intuition
Aristotle teaches that the philosopher and the poet both attend to the marvelous, and thus enjoy an occupational kinship. We might expand upon his observation by identifying the effects of