Monthly Archives: December 2013

Occidental Ideas, Part 5: Plotinus (Plato revisited)

In the ancient world there was a detectable ennui with the ability of any cult or philosophy to wield a binding vision. There was more serious discontent with the lack of an embraceable order to govern the acts of men. … Continue reading

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Occidental Ideas, Part 4: Judeo-Christian reflections

In the theories of Plato and Aristotle we have the two poles of occidental philosophical thought. All that follows orbits in some degree about one of these two understandings of how reality is constructed, and how we come to know … Continue reading

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