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Voices from the Past
I am currently transcribing letters written by my grandparents in the 1950s and 1960s. It is an interesting experience. My grandfather was a graphic artist and there is also an artist’s estate, see...
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Civilizations – Part 2
Originally posted on Embassy of the Future:(…continued) The amount of resources of any kind is limited. For a growing civilization, this can lead to a crisis. But being creative, a civilization is able...
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CIVILIZATIONS – PART 3
Originally posted on Embassy of the Future:(…continued). If a civilization outstrips the available resources and does not manage to stop growing, it will use up its reserves (raw materials, ecosystems,...
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“Volksgeist”– A Current in German Philosophy of the 19th and 20th Century
In German philosophy of the 19th and early 20th century, there seems to be a current of thinking that assigns a special ontological status to peoples and culutres. These are treated as having something...
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A Question – A Thought Experiment
Imagine you could be reborn and live another life, “somewhen” in the past. You could choose when in the history of mankind you would be born (+ or – 10 years or so) and where (+ or – a hundred...
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De Thomae Aquinatis “Summa Theologica” annotamentum
Originally posted on The Bubbling of my Thoughts: (A note on Thomas Aquinas’ “Summa Theologica”) I am imagining Thomas Aquinas sitting at his desk, writing a chapter of his “Summa Theologica”… Aquinas...
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Starting to Dig
Originally posted on Philosophical Excavations: I am starting to do some “philosophical archaeology” here. I do not mean this in the literal sense, my digging campaigns are not going to carry me into...
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Living with Gaps And Cracks
Originally posted on The Asifoscope: The basic and, in my opinion, defining property of the human mind is creativity: the ability to break out of any scheme, any fixed pattern or law of thinking. This...
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Imagine you are sitting down near an old tomb among Roman ruins, perhaps at the Via Appia, to take a rest during a hot summer day. You look at the inscriptions on the graves. They start talking to you:...
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Part 2 of a small series on some aspects of the history of ideas about the relationship of body and soul, or matter and mind. Part 1 is here. At the time of Plato, the practice of sacrifice is still...
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